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Sorry, folks, unplanned site outage
Due to a hard disk failure, we had a long-ish site outage. It should be all fixed now.
Data was restored from a backup taken about 1am Oct-9 PDT. Looks like the site went down about 3am Oct 9 PDT. Hopefully not much is missing, but if you posted anything after 1am PDT OCT 9, check to see if you need to re-post something.
Please post in this thread any missing data or other problems found.
FYI, it might take up to a day for all DNS servers to update with the correct site IP address (we pointed it to an alternate site to post the outage notifications). The effect to you is you might be unable to connect with all devices including users of Tapatalk.
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Great to see you back, I was really jonesing for LFPF! Thanks for sticking with itand getting back up!
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Welcome back. You were sorely missed. Was very sorry to hear about your server troubles. You were there one minute; gone the next.
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I missed you - welcome back LFPF
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Thank you, I am recouperating from Surgery and have really missed this forum.
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This forum was missed a lot.
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Welcome back. And many many thanks for the work involved in keeping this wondeful forum running. Well done!
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thanks for getting the forum up and running again!
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Ed, I hope all went well
I am surprised how much I missed LFPF
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ahhh, now my days can begin like they used to. so glad to this site back up and running !
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cowanw
Ed, I hope all went well
I am surprised how much I missed LFPF
Thanks, part one seems to have been quite successful part two in a while will be the big test.
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GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK!!
Jack
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thank you moderators(and server tenders) who got us back up and running :)!
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Tom Westbrook
Sorry, folks, unplanned site outage
Tom, if you had planned it, the timing couldn't have been better for me. I spent all last week hiking and photographing at the Grand Canyon. No Internet access and, even if there was, no temptation to spend time here when I should have been burning film.
Thanks for everyone's hard work bringing the site back.
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Great to see the site back up and running.
I missed it a lot.
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Having been in tech support for many years and a Novel network administrator I know the rock-in-the-stomach feeling when a network goes down.
You keep saying it was A hard disk failure. One hard disk? Really? You don't have a RAID subsystem? There must be more of a technical story to the outage than simply one hard drive that failed.
Good to have you up and running. Now go get some sleep, I'm sure you need it. :)
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Daniel Stone
thank you moderators(and server tenders) who got us back up and running :)!
Tom and our server owner deserve all the credit. Most of the mods were suffering withdrawal, too.
Rick "it was apparently a flaky (as in, intermittent) power-supply cable to the boot disk, which took out the boot disk, which took out the disk controller on the server" Denney
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Woo hoo! Welcome back and thank you!
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try a few others site just did not work for LF work
Hope ever thing goes good now
Good luck
Dave
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O'boy i was starting to get withdrawal symptoms .... the only place where people have a right to my opinion ....lol
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I was expecting to see another announcement, "Server still down, will be fixed by New Year's." So now it's fixed and I can put my cameras away and go back to reading posts here and buying more old junk on ebay. ;) At any rate, thanks for the hard work.
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You don't know what you've got until it's gone. I really appreciate the work done in getting the site back up and running!
Maybe it's time to invest in some offsite backup? Amazon Glacier is reasonably priced for the amount of data I imagine this forum uses. There's a decade's worth of collective knowledge gathered here and I'd hate to see that disappear.
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Thank goodness. I was running low on these barrels, trying to cope!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...4%20800LFF.jpg
Toyo 4x5, HP5+, 135mm lens
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Thanks for all your hard work.
Pete
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Whew! If you need a spare cord, I'll pony up. I don't want that to happen again! :)
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I missed this site as well! I'm glad to see it back up.
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David Lobato
This is lovely!
Not a criticism, but was the camera crooked, or the floor under the barrels crooked? :)
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Glad to see our forum back up again. Thanks to Tom and the techs for getting things rolling again, and preserving the stored data!
--P
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Originally Posted by
Tom Westbrook
Data was restored from a backup taken about 1am Oct-9 PDT. Looks like the site went down about 3am Oct 9 PDT. Hopefully not much is missing...
Good to know we only missed a few thousand of Drew's posts. :D
Thanks. This being at least the second server crash in my tenure here, would someone enlighten me as to how a crash specifically takes down the site? Is the server located in someone's closet? I imagine something like that, since a hosted site would keep running. How does this work for LFPF? Enquiring minds want to know.
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So good to catch up with friends.
Thanks!
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so great to see you again my friends... analog datas should be more stable
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Good to see us back, thanks for all the time and dedication you spent to get it up again.
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Hey were you able to disconnect Monty M ability to post here like I requested,, It will make for a much better site.
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ROL
This being at least the second server crash in my tenure here, would someone enlighten me as to how a crash specifically takes down the site?
A server is basically just a computer that hosts files, websites forums etc. So basically any thing that could cause your own computer to crash could also cause a server to crash.
From what I have read the issue here was cable that connected the hard drive to the mother board in the computer went bad and thus caused the hard drive to fail. If it just been the hard drive that failed I'm sure things would have been up and running faster but then they still had problems after replacing the hard drive so things took longer.
It does sound like they are not running redundant hardware so that things like this don't effect the end user. With redundant hardware a second server would automatically take over then it detected that the main server was not performing its task.
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Good to see all you guys again. I like apug, but I consider this place home. Thanks Tom, for getting it up and running again.
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StoneNYC
Not a criticism, but was the camera crooked, or the floor under the barrels crooked? :)
Stone, looks to me like the lower barrels are vertical, but the upper barrels are placed on the lower ones in such a way that fingers can get under their edges to make lifting easier.
And, thanks to Tom et al, I can breathe again.
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Very happy to see the site up again. I had a sinking feeling that you were experiencing my own private hell from a few years ago when in attempting to fix a failure of a disk drive in a RAID 5 array, a tech pulled a second drive from the array, thus completely breaking things in ways that should never of happened. Took us a week to get hardware on site, reconfigured and a terrabyte or so restored from backup. Thanks for all your hard work!
Mike
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Tom and Mr. server, great thanks for your work on restoration. I suspect many here appreciate the break from the forum so we could do some serious photography rather than monitor staring.
Nate Potter, Austin TX.
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a welcome return to normalcy, thanks
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Glad the site is back up.
I'm also thankful for Google's cached pages. I was searching for advice on lenses, and although the site was down, I could still view the archives in Google's cache. Woohoo!
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Wow.
Guess they shouldn't have let me into the server room, eh?
Next time I'll leave well enough alone and try not to spill beer on the hard drive!
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...0To/Homer2.jpg
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Thanks for such a great job everyday, but especially in getting this site back up. I have been needing to feed my addiction for days.
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I echo all the gratitude for getting the site back up and all the hard work you do to maintain it.
Much appreciated!
Gary
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Thanks guys and welcome back!
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Nice to see the forum running again.
I had a forum in the past (an IPB one) and not easy when something goes wrong in the database.
Thanks to all who give time for running this ressource forum so well. :cool: