CVS is busted

[Mike McGrath]

On 11/18/06, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On 11/17/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > On 11/17/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > > As of about 8:40 today the CVS box threw a SMART error regarding one
> > > > of its drives.  As a result most of the CVS box is presently mounted
> > > > read only.  We are working to correct this issue but expect CVS to be
> > > > up and down today.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dell has been dispatched and will arrive in 4 hours.  CVS will be down
> > > until further notice.
> >
> >
> > Further notice will go well into tonight and probably into tomorow.
> > The drives are pretty messed up and mgalgoci has done great work to
> > get the array's rebuilt but we aren't confident the filesystem will be
> > in working order, we may have to restore from backup.
> >
>
> Thanks for keeping us informed.
>
> Just for information, what backup type/program are you using?
> How easy is it to recover from bare metal?
>

We're using BackupPC.  At present we can't backup everything on every
box so we're only getting whats important (that will change with the
new backup server).  Bare metal for the cvs box though shouldn't be to
bad once we get the OS back on it.

             -Mike