What a fun Saturday. Was running a backup from home on the library’s primary webserver/MySQL machine…when I began getting things like this in my output:
Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc Error for Command: read(10) Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]
Not good. In fact, terrible. The drive died…speaking of drives, I had to drive in immediately and see what could be done. Not too much….and the bad part is that this particular drive was home to my highly configured apache and mysql installations, not to mention the library’s website, e-reserves system, campus phone book, the list goes on & on…
Had pretty decent backups of important data but not a good copy of MySQL or some of the other things that caused hours of work..
As I write this, we’re back at about 98%…I’m sure there are a few files on the server that are now having a Dylan-like experience …”ah but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”