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Tim determined that the drive was healthy, which was slightly concerning, but more concerning was the beeping that started to come from Attenborough.
Tim determined that the drive was healthy, which was slightly concerning, but more concerning was the beeping that started to come from Attenborough.


At this point #Computing moved up a level of emergency.
#Computing moved up a level of emergency.


[[File:4_Attenborough_Dies.png]]
[[File:4_Attenborough_Dies.png]]
Rebuilding the dead OS drive failed. So the team decided to give the old "failed" drive a try. This started to rebuild fine so everyone went to the pub.
One Courtyard meal later and the OS drive claims to be rebuilt, but just to be sure, Attenborough was rebooted into the RAID BIOS. Much to the disappointment of all present, Attenborough promptly started to beep and reported the RAID array to be degraded. Just in case something other than the drive had failed, Attenborough was set about rebuilding his RAID array again. This failed.
At this point there was only one thing to do: call [[Sam|Sam Willcocks]]. Sam suggested installing Ubuntu on another, unraided, drive to dump all of the data on Attenborough onto Backup.
The new Ubuntu-based temporary Attenborough was given the hostname "TomScott" after YSTV alumni [[W:Tom_Scott_(entertainer)]], who is in part known for bodging together
[[Hui-Ling Phillips]] and [[Katherine Bell]] had arrived bringing the gift of biscuits and all awaited data to start pouring onto Backup through the magic of rsync with the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack playing in the background to match the atmosphere and keep morale high.
Pizza was then ordered.


Attenborough disaster
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
   - Phone call to [[Sam Willcocks]] who is in sheffield after a job interview in London
   - Discussions about transferring data to [[Bruce]]
   - Discussions about transferring data to [[Bruce]]