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Yeah, that was one scary day, maybe it had something to do with Halloween fast approaching. Multiple hard drive failures on our database server at the same time (maybe a power surge or something). We have a RAID array (redundant drives) but when several fail at once you're in trouble.

Not knowing how much data was lost until the data center retreived our backups from tape. Then realizing image files weren't in the backup set, and waiting for our data center to try and boot the failed drives to recover data. Trust me I almost had a heart attack several times during the day.

In the end we only lost about 1 hour worth of data in the middle of the night but that sure ruined our weekend.

First hardware failure we've had in 2 1/2 years with the datacenter.

They were perusing the "real" blogs of the ActiveRainers. I got a visit from Broker Bryant and The Lovely Wife for the first time today! However, the hardware breakdown took out about 10 comments that I had made throughout the community the night before. Sigh. One can never recreate what one has lost into cyberspace!

rebloggirl - i wonder what all the rainers are doing instead.

As a developer there is nothing worse than having a hardware failure, so my heart goes out to Matt and his team. I know the drill- they will be working overtime today and tomorrow with very little to no sleep. I hope everyone appreciates their tireless effort to get their machines back up and running for us addicted Rainers... And when they are done... let the poor boys rest.