[Clusterusers] keg rebuild attempt

[Thomas Helmuth]

Thanks for the update and hard work Josiah!

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Wm. Josiah Erikson <wjerikson at hampshire.edu
> wrote:

> 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
>
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