sidrick Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Sort it out, Stoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Sort it out, Stoo Hmm, shouldn't really have been any (many) posts lost. Basically. Our datacentre was doing some re-organisation of the racks, thus needed to move servers. However this one obtained an 'unreadable' primary HDD in the process Making the most of the downtime, I re-imaged the server to a newer OS and started from scratch and then restored the backups that were made a few hours before the 'move' happened. Is that good enough for you Sidrick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 It's not ideal, but it'll have to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgio Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Damn servers... once they turn off, you can never be sure that they will be online again flawless after power on again... this is why you avoid to turn them off most of the times... but... sometimes you have to.Kudoz to stu for his effort Been there, done that :censored: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Damn servers... once they turn off, you can never be sure that they will be online again flawless after power on again... this is why you avoid to turn them off most of the times... but... sometimes you have to.Kudoz to stu for his effort Been there, done that :censored: We regularly reboot for Kernel updates etc, I have a suspicion that something physical happened to the server, but getting anyone to admit that would be difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgio Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 We regularly reboot for Kernel updates etc, I have a suspicion that something physical happened to the server, but getting anyone to admit that would be difficult. Reboot is something else. When HDD's spin down and has to spin up again, then problems arrise. When you reboot, in fact you don't power off HDD's.When you turn off a server is another case, and 95% of the breakdowns occur when the server powers on again. You may have a server running 24/7 flawlessly, and when you power off it, there is serious chance to not boot up... although servers work on hw raid, there are some times that can't boot... admitting that something went wrong is rather difficult, I agree with you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I've got systems at work which we daren't power down for this exact reason. Too old, too not-understood, too out of warranty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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