Did everyone else with a colo-mojo account just have all database servers vanish, or am I lucky?

Cleo · 2013-10-05, 08:37 AM

Back when Colo was Chris's host my server lost a drive. It had been acting up for about a week and Chris drove down to see what was going on. He decided to put a new drive in my box and when he restarted it the old drive would not spin up. Turned out that two of the directories in the backups where corrupted as they had backed up my drive which had become corrupted. The two directories that were corrupted were the directory with all my databases and a directory that contained my main domain used for doing promo.

The only thing that saved my ass was my local backups on a Mac in my home and the only reason that I had a non corrupted backup was that I do seven different backups, one for each day of the week.

Bill · 2013-10-05, 08:41 AM

Holy shit, it just came back. Now I have to scramble a bit, I already told godaddy to change nameservers.

Bill · 2013-10-05, 08:48 AM

Cool, just a few minutes ago everything came back completely, all the wordpress is good, no more plugin errors at all that I can see, the drupal is perfect as far as I can tell.

That's one of the differences between a commercial consumer host like midphase, and these kinds of hosts. yes, this was slower than I expected, for me the worst outage ever since I switched all to colo years ago, but still, at a certain point they get the fucking job done.

Still, I have a task ahead of me - scheduling consistent backups of everything. (I do always use backup plugins and modules for client sites, just not my own, and testbed sites and whatnot).

javbucks · 2013-10-06, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

Back when Colo was Chris's host my server lost a drive. It had been acting up for about a week and Chris drove down to see what was going on. He decided to put a new drive in my box and when he restarted it the old drive would not spin up. Turned out that two of the directories in the backups where corrupted as they had backed up my drive which had become corrupted. The two directories that were corrupted were the directory with all my databases and a directory that contained my main domain used for doing promo.

The only thing that saved my ass was my local backups on a Mac in my home and the only reason that I had a non corrupted backup was that I do seven different backups, one for each day of the week.

Backups are smart!

2013-10-05, 08:37 AM	#1
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	Back when Colo was Chris's host my server lost a drive. It had been acting up for about a week and Chris drove down to see what was going on. He decided to put a new drive in my box and when he restarted it the old drive would not spin up. Turned out that two of the directories in the backups where corrupted as they had backed up my drive which had become corrupted. The two directories that were corrupted were the directory with all my databases and a directory that contained my main domain used for doing promo. The only thing that saved my ass was my local backups on a Mac in my home and the only reason that I had a non corrupted backup was that I do seven different backups, one for each day of the week. __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289

2013-10-05, 08:41 AM	#2
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Holy shit, it just came back. Now I have to scramble a bit, I already told godaddy to change nameservers.

2013-10-05, 08:48 AM	#3
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Cool, just a few minutes ago everything came back completely, all the wordpress is good, no more plugin errors at all that I can see, the drupal is perfect as far as I can tell. That's one of the differences between a commercial consumer host like midphase, and these kinds of hosts. yes, this was slower than I expected, for me the worst outage ever since I switched all to colo years ago, but still, at a certain point they get the fucking job done. Still, I have a task ahead of me - scheduling consistent backups of everything. (I do always use backup plugins and modules for client sites, just not my own, and testbed sites and whatnot).