amigaworld.net down, HD Failure.

[DaveyD]

Update

The server harddrive developed lots of damaged blocks, this caused the server to crash and has corruped lots of data, luckily most of these corruped data files are system files and not website or database files.

The OS has been booted up in Recovery mode and we are currently tar'ing hda3 (18GB) to a remote location using an ssh tunnel (thanks Sibbi). This will take serveral hours.

Once that is done support will replace and partition a new harddrive with the OS installed.  Then we can restore hda3 to the new harddrive, and if all goes well we will be back online tomorrow.

[DaveyD]

The DB is backed up everynight to a remote location, and 4 are stored in rotation. A backup of the site files are store on my PC, not much of the site files really change, apart from user avatars.

Lots of stuff that isnt backup, like system configuration files, cron scipts and so on. So it was easier to just copy the whole hda3 partition to an other server via an ssh tunnel.

[DaveyD]

@All

We've successfully backed up the hda3 files to a remote location and are now awaiting for support to replace the harddrive. Site should be online sometime tomorrow afternoon (UK time).

Apologies for the inconvenience!

And thanks Wayne Hunt and Amiga.org for letting our members use your forums during this difficult period.

[DaveyD]

Progress report:

- New harddrive installed
- Faulty harddrive is being mounted as a 2nd drive for data retrieval to the new drive
- OS and Services are currently being installed

I will keep you posted as things develop

A few avatars is all that appears to have been lost from aw.net, and a few recent os4depot.net uploads

[DaveyD]

@adolescent

It would have been done in 4 hours if support had been quicker to replace the harddrive