[RAS] nebka is down

[Christian Zimmermann]

UConn has no backup under the understanding that you were backing up.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
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University of Connecticut
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>
>  Ruggieri, Timothy writes
>
>> I went over to UITS and took a look at Nebka.  As you suspected, there
>> seems to have been a filesystem corruption problem of some kind.  The
>> console was full of EXT3 errors.  I shut down the computer and forced a
>> complete fsck on restart.  After the disk check, Nebka seems to be
>> working again.  I took the liberty of creating an account for myself so
>> I could log in remotely via SSH.  SSH seems to be working, along with
>> Apache, although when you connect to nebka.uconn.edu via the web you get
>> the Apache startup page.  I don't know anything about what services
>> Nebka is offering, so I have not checked much further.
>>
>> Please try to connect to Nebka and see what, if anything, is still
>> broken.
>
>
>  The disk has crashed again. I have no backup for
>  the crucial data in /home/aras. The most
>  important there are /home/aras/acis/userdata and
>  /home/aras/acis/backup
>
>  If the machine is kept running, that data may
>  go away. If you guys don't have a local backup,
>  we would be in a severe fix.
>
>  If someone can make it there as soon as possible,
>  take a backup of /home/aras, and put in a new
>  disk with a basic debian o/s in it, I can then
>  work on restoring service. The disk that we
>  have there now is a gonner.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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>