I just stopped by to say good luck.

Holy shit, I was just wondering where you've been!!

Help is always welcome. Even when it comes from the mailman or my mother-in-law. Actually to not tell the whole story yet since I am going to post that as soon as I read the rest of the thread. I am trying to determine what the start sector of the raided drive itself should be on a smart array 4200. I am looking at the images in a utility called raid reconstructor and am trying to figure out the proper metrics otherwise I will likely send the images to Ontrack and let them do it till I can figure it out.

OK time for an update. Looks like I might exceed last nights four hours sleep so I'll spend a few minutes updating the masses. First let me note that this failure has had little financial impact on me so don't feel the need to be concerned about my well being. I and my family are fine no major impact beyond lack of sleep. If anything I am enjoying the experience I am getting in sytem failures, data recovery, and forensics. ANyway on with what you really want to hear.

On friday morning I discovered my shared hosting server housed the control panels not to mention DNS was locked up. I operate it and a few dedicated servers and some co-location stuff under the brand name of Navigatorhosting. The navigatorhosting domains I bought a few years ago once my network consulting business called Byteguru was operating well. I had started it in October 2003 when oportunity came knocking for me finally. But that is another story that I will save for OO when it comes back. It operates in the red, but I always intended it to just be a finger the ocean of hosting. Anyway I noticed that one of the raid 5 rrays had all of the activity lights solid. Tried doing some card swapping with spares, no joy. At some point the array information stored at the start of the drives became corrupted and the drives would remain offline. I have since made raw images of the 7 total disks that were in the system and have been trying to use some raid reconstruction software to allow me to mount them. If I don't have any luck today I intend to send the to Ontrack Data Recovery who I have a partnership agreement with to have the get what is to be gotten. I have looked at the raw images and see the data so I don't expect to lose much if any data.

Anyway on to the future. Just so happens just before this I had decided to put a lot more resources in the hosting among othe areas of my business. SO I have a new Cisco 4948 Layer 3 switch coming in Thursday and sometime this week or next three 2TB SAN units coming in from Leftahnd Networks. Both of course who I also have partnership relationships with. Actaull that is where I went to a school with when I visited MHS and whats his face, not to mention often immitated but never duplicated Chris Grenard or was it Greenard. SO I doubt we will ever play this game again. I am also moving much of my internal computing as a lot of the hosting to VM technology to not allow server hardware to interrupt anything. We have been planning a server move and forum software upgrade for some time, so I will likely try to go right into that as fast as possible if not right away. I also just happen to have a new fiber connection from another carrier being brought into the building. This has been order some two or three weeks ago. We will jump from 3Mbps to 10Mbps. Install is scheduled for the 21st on that. I am upgrading my company so I intend to do the same with OO. I may throw some money/business resources into putting a little polish and chrome on her.

If you guys would like something to do in the mean time, I could use an HTML page to throw up in the mean time. Discuss what you might like the new improved OO to have or look like. I'm sure the staff would love some ideas as we are probably on the verge of getting together for last minute planing decisions with the new knowledge that resources at our disposal will be at an all-time high.

Can someone check Ron's fridge and see if there is a cold one in there?   

Whoa, thanks for the update Rip.  That was definitely a lot to take in

Uh, yup.

Yep it is nice to have everyone around again (even if I was rudely kicked out the door here awhile ago)....oh and by the way....this is Hetz.  



I kid, I kid...I'm done with the whole system war thing.

Thanks for the head's up, Rip. I'm very glad to hear you've not been financially impacted by this. It sounds like the proverbial blessing in disguise, and it's good to know we've got a "phoenix" (as Zax put it) on the way.

One thing I'd love to see is new forum software, preferably vBulletin, as it's got some really nice features (like placing a checkmark in the subject line of threads you've participated in. Another subtle feature is the ability to edit your post within 2 minutes without giving you the edited tag.

Long live the Overlords.

Thanks for the update Rip...

Oh the power to hold in your hands the happiness of so many people that you can pull the plug on whenever you damn well please.

Remember with great power comes great responsibility!

er... no.... semaj drank it all!

Thanks for the update.  I imagine Lordmortis must be going crazy.




 

He is going to put stricnine in the guacamole!

Let me add my +1 to the 'Thanks for the Update, Rip' comments.

I guess it's good timing for me that OO is down since I have a huge amount of work to do this week... Not that there's anything wrong with GT. I should visit here more often!

Rip (I will probably mail you this info too), check out the url here on RAID forensics and recovery.  Gives you a rundown on how to pick out the parity, reconstruct the map etc.

I haven't actually done a real honest to goodness investigation involving RAID yet, but that's a good starting point on grabbing the info once imaged.

I could have told you guys not to let Chaosraven near the hamster.  Geez.

On OO most of us loved Battlestar Galactica....now we're living it.



p.s.  i hereby designate dbt as our Adama

Dr. Gaius Baltar?  Sure...



good luck bedding down anything that still has sight, though...

I love it. Classic! 

Did you hear something, Daggett!?