Server Down: Hard Drive Failure.

4pyros · Dec 13, 2012

Thanks EM I was drinking to much with the site down. Ha Ha

MikeMl · Dec 13, 2012

Missed the site. Glad it is back.

3v0 · Dec 13, 2012

Clicking "your posts" results in
connection to localhost:9312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused)

tvtech · Dec 13, 2012

My thoughts.. ETO has gone bang/broke or something.

Worried me lot's since the beginning of not being able to access the site around two days ago.

Thank You EM for fixing and letting us know. ETO is an absolute treasure on the NET. Never want it to "disappear" again.

Kind Regards,
tv tech

ghostman11 · Dec 13, 2012

a small sugestion... maybe we should chip in for a RAID array for the site?? then if a drive fails nothing is lost its just a case of putting in another drive. ive ended up using a RAID system on my main pc as HD's theese days dont seem to last long

Ian Rogers · Dec 13, 2012

ghostman11 said:
a small sugestion... maybe we should chip in for a RAID array for the site?? then if a drive fails nothing is lost its just a case of putting in another drive. ive ended up using a RAID system on my main pc as HD's theese days dont seem to last long

I thought RAID was the opposite?? If you use a RAID array and one drive goes down, its worse... I assumed RAID was for access speed.

I suppose the technology has improved since I last looked (about 5 years ago)

tvtech · Dec 13, 2012

Ian Rogers said:
I thought RAID was the opposite?? If you use a RAID array and one drive goes down, its worse... I assumed RAID was for access speed.

I suppose the technology has improved since I last looked (about 5 years ago)

LOL Ian...I am just so happy ETO is up and running again. If ETO is supposed to run on Eight cylinders and is only running on Two now....good enough for me. At least ETO is back.

Cheers,
tvtech

Nigel Goodwin · Dec 13, 2012

Ian Rogers said:
I thought RAID was the opposite?? If you use a RAID array and one drive goes down, its worse... I assumed RAID was for access speed.

I suppose the technology has improved since I last looked (about 5 years ago)

No, it can be used either way - for speed, or for reliability.

tvtech · Dec 13, 2012

Nigel Goodwin said:
No, it can be used either way - for speed, or for reliability.

Hey Nigel

How are your repairs today? More than normal ?.

We are flooded out. No more space here for repaired sets awaiting collection....Never mind new repairs coming in.

Regards,
tvtech

jpanhalt · Dec 13, 2012

Raid can be used either or BOTH ways.(RAID10).

I use RAID for mirror. The only inconvenience in a 3rd world country like Cleveland is when the power blinks, you have a 3 to 4 hour rebuild, or more. I limit my drives to 500 GB for that reason.

This episode reminds me of the line from Annie, " A day without ETO is like a night without stars."

John

be80be · Dec 13, 2012

3rd world country like Cleveland

I liked that thats about where were at now days .

But I'm so glade to see this site up and going. It's about all my broke AZ has to do to keep from going crazy.

@tvtech Repairs are way up here I fix all kinds of boards in stoves dryer and things like that.

throbscottle · Dec 13, 2012

Great work EM, thanks for keeping this great resource going! (and I thought it was me that broked it...)

Dr_Doggy · Dec 13, 2012

i was pinging server every 2 hrs aswell!!!

FYI - i get this error when trying to upload images:

Fatal error:

Could not create file system directory to hold your attachment.

Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_AttachmentFiledata in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 849

ElectroMaster · Dec 13, 2012

3v0: 'Your Posts' are now working. It took some time to synchronise the search data.
Dr_Doggy: attachment permissions are fixed.

MrAl · Dec 13, 2012

ElectroMaster said:
Currently uploading avatars, then will do thread images/pdfs. Will update after that (could be a few hours as my upload is relatively slow atm).

Thanks for understanding everyone.

Hi again EM,

Good luck with getting everything back up and running normally. What a pain these systems can be sometimes

BTW, do you think it is possible that we lost any memberships that were very recent, and if so, is there any way to inform them?

PG1995 · Dec 15, 2012

Hi

Is there any chance that the posts created after Dec 08, the date of last backup before the crash, could be back? Further, many of my threads created before the last backup are missing the attachments. What would become of them? Kindly let me know. Thank you.

Regards
PG

alec_t · Dec 15, 2012

Articles in the 'Circuits' section have also lost their attachments .

MikeMl · Dec 15, 2012

Tried to attach a diagram (jpg) to this post this morning:

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/variable-voltage.131895/#post1097854

I get fatal error during uploading of the image. See the link above.

PG1995 · Dec 15, 2012

Yes, the uploading is not working for me too. I'm using an external image hosting website and link the uploaded images here in my posts.

ElectroMaster · Dec 15, 2012

Hi Guys,

The attachments and images are still being uploaded. There are many gigs of data and it's all queued up. I'll let you know when it's finished and then we can see if there is anything missing.

I'll look into the image upload issue right now.

Regards,
EM

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