[IMC-Tech] Re: ucimc.org down, thebikeproject.org reverted 7 weeks

[dan blah]

good to hear barry.  within the next couple weeks we will be backing
up *everything* on the production servers including your home
directories on at least a daily basis.

On 4/25/07, Barry Isralewitz <barryi at ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         Looks like thebikeproject.org is now back to good shape.  Having my
> home dir intact made this possible; thanks.
>
>
>         Details you don't have time to read tonight:
>
>         The site's svn repository was fine (since it was in my home
> directory), so the site is back to last svn update, April 17 state.
> This  is the same state (or nearly so) it was in April 24, before the
> disk failure.
>
>         So count one user as relieved.  And also happy that you folks store
> (backup?) my home dir in a different place (way?) than the Bike
> Project web site.
>
>         The most recent backup I had done of thebikeproject.org site -- an
> scp of the site's svn directory to a non-chambana.net computer -- had
> been an April 7 snapshot.   Made several changes since then.
>         But --  I didn't even need to use this version, since my home
> directory ( on disk /dev/idad0s1g) was fine! The svn repository in /
> home/barryi  had updates through April 17 (with at most tiny changes
> since then), so just needed to move out the March restore, and  check
> out the latest version to /var/www/thebikeproject.org
>
>
>
>                 Cheers,
>
>                 Barry
>
>
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>
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> On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:56 PM, dan blah wrote:
>
> > we have lost our main drive and our latest backup was from march 19th.
> > we have restored files and are working to restore the databases.  if
> > the site is database driven (ucimc.org, cuwin.net, etc.) your site is
> > still not functional and will have lost all data from this time.
> >
> > steps have and where already in place to advert data loss down the the
> > hour but due to upgrades in infrastructure currently happening we were
> > in a period of vulnerability.  unfortunately our good luck going most
> > of the last year without a good backup solution ran out right as we
> > were about to have a good one.
> >
> > again, josh and i have been working on this since late afternoon and
> > will be working on it till the issue is resolved.  please hang tight.
> >
> >
> > On 4/24/07, Barry Isralewitz <barryi at ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>  As subject says.
> >>
> >>  http://ucimc.org - dead
> >>  just shows Drupal error message
> >>
> >>  http://thebikeproject.org has 7-week old files
> >>
> >>
> >>  Cheers,
> >>
> >>  Barry
> >>
> >> --
> >> Barry Isralewitz   Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group,
> >> UIUC
> >> Beckman 3043   Office Phone: (217) 244-1612  Home Phone: (217)
> >> 337-6364
> >> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu      http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel
>
> --
> Barry Isralewitz   Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, UIUC
> Beckman 3043   Office Phone: (217) 244-1612  Home Phone: (217) 337-6364
> email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu      http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi
>
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-- 
Daniel