Usergroup IRC down?

[#1]

I think the number of !nre requests blew it.

[#2]

Ahh, so we all need to blame Dan then. Where is he...

[#3]

He's gone to work.
It's boring without the IRC channel...

[#4]

Quote from: Be3G

Thanks spraxyt - though repairing the file system? What on Earth happened to it (the server, I mean)?

In technical terms - it decked it!
At the moment we're trying to get the data off one of the disks, then we'll most likely have to rebuild the box and move the data across. We managed to fsck the disk initially but it identified a shed-load of errors and subsequent boot-up failed due to parts of the OS being missing.

[#5]

I do hope we have a backup 

[#6]

Quote from: Bob

At the moment we're trying to get the data off one of the disks, then we'll most likely have to rebuild the box and move the data across. We managed to fsck the disk initially but it identified a shed-load of errors and subsequent boot-up failed due to parts of the OS being missing.

Wasn't this tried before without success?

[#7]

Quote from: Oldjim

I do hope we have a backup

Bob's been volunteered to rekey it all manually from the punched tape backup. This may mean that only the posts by Methuselah will be in the restored database

[#8]

To try and releave the boredom around here, I've set up a temp IRC channel using the Chat4all site.
If you've got your own IRC program, you want the following details:
Server: irc.chat4all.org
Port: 6667
Channel:  #PNUsertools
If you have to use a web interface, the easyist one I know of is to use the one off the chat4all site http://www.chat4all.org/eng_yourchatroom.html

[#9]

OK I'm feeling quite lonely on my own there...

[#10]

Come and join me on mine!

[#11]

I thought I had?! 

[#12]

Quote from: Oldjim

I do hope we have a backup

Preferably a recent one.

[#13]

Hi guys,
Just to let you know I've just posted an updated SS on this. We're currently working on getting the data onto new hardware.

[#14]

How up to date is the backup

[#15]

If the backup is not up to date, will everybody get hit with a flood of service status announcements going back to the date of the last backup?