On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben spent tons of hours working on our server recovery and even took a > day off of work to get it back in action.
While I sincerely appreciate the gesture, I think your idea of my effort paints me in a better light than the reality. Some mitigating factors here: A1. I've had the pair of new 73 GB disks in my possession for nearly a year. If I had gotten off my duff and finished that prep work, we would have been using them well before now, and never gone down. A2. One of the old 18 GB disks failed back in August. So we knew the system was running on just one good disk. See A1. A3. I could have decided to put GNHLUG ahead of recreational activities from my weekend, and maybe gotten the server up a week earlier, and before I took that day off. A4. All told, I didn't spend *that* much time actually working on the server. Much of the downtime was a matter of priorities and schedule alignment, rather than continuous effort. I'd also like to take this opportunity to point out that other people contributed, and *they* are much less recognizied: B1. Matt Brodeur has an off-site computer which makes automatic backups of the GNHLUG server. Thanks to that, I was never worried that we would suffer serious data loss. Even if both disks died, we'd be able to recover to within six hours. B2. When the server went down, Bill McGonigle promptly stepped forward with offers of temporary hosting. He provided the "sad penguin" notice so people would know what's going on. He also took over DNS during the outage. B3. Cole Tuininga donates DNS services, and worked with Bill and me to handle the DNS changes during the outage. B4. Several other people contacted me to see if there was anything they could do to help. Schedule alignment worked against us here, but it could just as easily have been them doing all the hard work. My thanks to all who contributed. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/