[Clusterusers] keg rebuild attempt

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Hi folks,
    I have failed in my attempts to get keg's RAID array back. I will be
rebuilding keg with Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and then manually configuring
everything (which shouldn't be too hard) and copying things back from
backups. I hope *fingers crossed* to have everything back up by the end
of tomorrow. If I don't, I will work on it over the weekend.
    Until then, tractor, helga, and the render farm in general will
continue to be down. My sincerest apologies for this inconvenience!!
    -Josiah


On 3/5/15 10:02 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>     I am going to start working on getting keg back online. This will
> happen in two stages:
>
>     1. I am going to attempt to get the RAID array to re-assemble, so we
> can start again right where we left off. My initial attempts don't look
> promising, but I'm going to keep trying
>     2. Failing that, I am going to have to rebuild from scratch and then
> restore the backed-up data
>
>     IMPORTANT INFO:
>
>     We do not back up everything. The svn repo is of course backed up,
> and all of /helga/tube is backed up, but only because we made a special
> exception. Unfortunately, the only thing in /helga/<yourfolder> that is
> backed up is anything that you put in /helga/<yourfolder>/prot, which
> means that any existing renders, etc, will be gone if I have to go with
> #2, which looks increasingly likely.
>
>     The idea here is that only machine time is required to rebuild what
> you've lost if you've put all the source material in the svn repo. I
> hope that this is the case, but it still kinda sucks.
>
>     I forgot my phone today, but feel free to stop by the server room or
> shoot me an email back.
>

-- 
Wm. Josiah Erikson
Assistant Director of IT, Infrastructure Group
System Administrator, School of CS
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-6091