Drive Crash 4: Now That's What I Call rsync
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Started with backup
- Unhappy because a drive wasn't plugged in (again) - Rebuilt the array - Another drive failed - Replaced
Meanwhile web
- Complained of an unhappy drive (SMART Errors)
Attenborough disaster
- Patching the AV Rack - Tom hears a beeping - OhShit.jpeg - Dead OS drive - No problem, we'll bung another drive in - After sorting through all the other dead OS drives, we found an healthy (we think) 500GB drive - Tried rebuilding onto the new drive - Raid status optimal - Reboot - Raid status degraded - Old drive passing SMART tests - Bung old drive into server - RAID card crashes - And again - Optimal - Degraded - Katherine Bell and Hui-Ling Phillips arrive with biscuits - RAID card crashes - Try rebuild again - Phone call to Sam Willcocks who is in sheffield after a job interview in London - Discussions about transferring data to Bruce - Decision is made to transfer data off of Attenborough to Backup - Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack used to compliment the atmosphere (and keep spirits high) - Pizza ordered - Debian installed on another 500GB drive - Given the host name "TomScott" due to the new OS disk being a temporary bodge - ZFS pool mounted - The rsyncing begins - We rsync the most recent (and most important) productions to backup - Edwin Barnes starts transferring footage from Pending Edits backup to Edit 2 to edit - Tim Bradgate starts working on chron jobs to auto backup