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Thanks for your efforts

Thanks to all who worked throughout your the last week to bring TFL back to life. I missed it and I appreciate efforts.
 
Thank tyme. We'd almost lost it all.

Since we installed the new server we'd been having problems. The old server didn't have the capacity to do backups. We ordered additional drives for it. That took a while. Discovering that the Co-Lo crew in WA couldn't swap out the drives caused more delays.

The old server was one day away from being shipped to tyme for setup as a backup when the new one went down. The first guru to check it, threw up his hands, saying the drives were unreadable. tyme got hold of it and discovered a miniscule hardware problem. He swapped a card, removed a connetor, changed the op-system, stress tested under load, sprinkled some happy dust on it and shipped back to WA on Thursday.

He's also installed a backup 200GB drive just in case. The old server will now be shipped back to him as redundant backup and I'll be downloading weeklies to my own computer.

Truly sorry for the mess....this is hardly the kind of instability TFL's been known for.
Rich
 
Glad you guys got it worked out. I missed TFL while it was down!

Pass my thanks along to tyme, please.

pax
 
I'm just glad it's back up. There was much worry that none of the new posts would be recoverable.
 
Lord Blesseth the pessimists, for they hath made backups.

And all the people who worked to bring the system back to what passes for Normal around these parts.

Hoo-AH! (In the immortal words of R. Lee Ermy.

Geoff Timm
Who extends his sympathy to the sysadmin, for the customers never remember the 2000 up days, only the 1 down. :cool:
 
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