[RAS] nebka is down

[Christian Zimmermann]

I am not sure the disk is toast. We had problems previously that were 
solved with a better directory structure. Maybe this is the same problem 
again. The CitEc AMF data has grown a lot recently, if some directory has 
a lot of files, this would replicate the earlier problem.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
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Storrs, CT 06269-1063
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

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>  Christian Zimmermann writes
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>> UConn has no backup under the understanding that you were backing\ up.
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>  This is extremely bad news. Because of the problems that
>  I had with fafner and raneb, and in the aftermath of that
>  backup has been shaky. I have no backup of /home/aras.
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>  This is putting us into an extremly difficult situation.
>  We need to stop the machine asap, run a disk check,
>  and recover whatever we can on another machine, from
>  /home/aras.
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>  Let me know if there is anything I could do to help.
>  I have beenn running an rsync backup as soon as the
>  machine was back up, checking my local records.
>  But it did not get to /home/aras until the machine
>  crashed. This disk is toast.
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>  We need more help with backup and system administration.
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>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel
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