MancuNET go boom, will be fixed within 48-72 hours

[Mancubus II]

Primary hard disk failure on MancuNET. They're going to replace it within 24 hours, but things may be unavailable for the next few days as I will have to go through and set everything up again. Thankfully there's no charge for this (except for my time and frustration) and ServerBeach are quick and professional (as opposed to dreamhost who are a joke and terrible).

Will keep this thread updated with any new information. Yes data are backed up.

[UPDATE 07/08/09 3:11PM]
The drive is being replaced during a 4 hour window of 8pm-11:59pm CDT (so starting within about 5 hours). Starting tomorrow I will be going through the process of setting back up all the crap. Thankfully I got this thing with a spare drive in it I was not yet using, so I partitioned, formatted and now I have a spare drive to copy things to. Makes backing up much faster!

[UPDATE 07/08/09 5:35PM]
Attempting to do mysqldump does not fully dump before throwing itself into read-only mode (from warm boot). I've backed up the actual database files and dirs themselves, which should restore fine. I used the packaged version (lenny) of mysql 5 and I will be reinstalling the same version most likely. Nothing too critical will be lost with these dbs but I am doing my best to ensure they're still alive. ServerBeach continues to be fantastic in their support. I will not be near a computer until tomorrow morning. When I return to a computer I should have waiting for me a freshly provisioned server.

[UPDATE 07/09/09 10:08AM]
The server is back online, but it only has the new drive, not my second backup drive. They were testing to see if I could log in before putting in my other drive. However, their language seemed to indicate that they'd be putting in my original disk back in so I could copy off of it. Whether that's the case or not, the key is that I get my second hard drive that I am paying monthly for.

[UPDATE 07/09/09 10:55AM]
All drives are in, fresh /dev/sda, backup /dev/sdb and fartknocker brokendrive on /dev/sdc. Will be doing software rebuild over the course of the afternoon/evening starting in a few hours. Most if not all services will be restored in the next 12-24 hours. Thank you everyone for your continued patience and support.

[UPDATE 07/10/09 8:26AM]
Most everything is back to normal. Email is not set up yet but that is a separate process. All accounts should be restored, passwords are the same, all subversion repositories are restored and websites are restored. Please note: things may still be a little intermittent as I stop/restart different services during the remainder of the setup process.

If you are finding that something is missing, I will still be checking these threads regularly. You can also send an email to my offsite email address (fuzztooth@gmail.com).

[Rachael]

Whoa, was wondering why I couldn't access SVN, I was going to post a message asking about it, but thank you, you beat me to it.

[Remmirath]

So that's not just me.

Hope you can fix it soon, Manc.

[Mancubus II]

The drive is being replaced during a 4 hour window of 8pm-11:59pm CDT (so starting within about 5 hours). Starting tomorrow I will be going through the process of setting back up all the crap. Thankfully I got this thing with a spare drive in it I was not yet using, so I partitioned, formatted and now I have a spare drive to copy things to. Makes backing up much faster!

[Mancubus II]

Attempting to do mysqldump does not fully dump before throwing itself into read-only mode (from warm boot). I've backed up the actual database files and dirs themselves, which should restore fine. I used the packaged version (lenny) of mysql 5 and I will be reinstalling the same version most likely. Nothing too critical will be lost with these dbs but I am doing my best to ensure they're still alive. ServerBeach continues to be fantastic in their support. I will not be near a computer until tomorrow morning. When I return to a computer I should have waiting for me a freshly provisioned server. Thankfully lessons were learned from the errors I was having before in my initial setup so things should go more smoothly this time. The biggest issue tends to be permissions related and besides lessons learned, everything has been backed up with that information intact.

[Mancubus II]

All drives are in, fresh /dev/sda, backup /dev/sdb and fartknocker brokendrive on /dev/sdc. Will be doing software rebuild over the course of the afternoon/evening starting in a few hours. Most if not all services will be restored in the next 12-24 hours. Thank you everyone for your continued patience and support.

[Enjay]

I hadn't spotted that you had reported this here so I mirrored your Doomworld post over at the DRD forum.

Anyway, thanks for the heads-up and for keeping us informed. I'm glad that it seems to be getting resolved quickly.

[Mancubus II]

I hadn't spotted that you had reported this here so I mirrored your Doomworld post over at the DRD forum.
Anyway, thanks for the heads-up and for keeping us informed. I'm glad that it seems to be getting resolved quickly.

The more locations it's at, the better. So thanks! Yeah they're great for support. 24 hour total turnaround time from problem reporting to final confirmation (they actually replaced the drive 2 hours earlier than the window they alloted but after I had already given them permission to go any time). I just hope setting things back up won't be TOO much trouble.

Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced my accounts file with everyone's email addresses of those who have accounts with me, so it'll be time to do the hunt all over again. Thankfully it's only been about 6 months.

[Mancubus II]

Most everything is back to normal. Email is not set up yet but that is a separate process. All accounts should be restored, passwords are the same, all subversion repositories are restored and websites are restored. Please note: things may still be a little intermittent as I stop/restart different services during the remainder of the setup process.

If you are finding that something is missing, I will still be checking these threads regularly. You can also send an email to my offsite email address (fuzztooth@gmail.com).

[Enjay]

Well, I was just able to check out Zdoom and GZdoom using TortoiseSVN so that's a thumbs up from me.

Thanks for your efforts in this.

[Vesalia]

Yep, it's up and running again. Thank you Manc.

[Remmirath]

Thank you so much, Manc. :)

[Rachael]

Indeed, thank you. ^^

[Gez]

BUMP OF DOOM


What's happening to the server now? I get timeouts.

[ZDG]

There's a lot of server failures going around.