Server downtime 10/18/11

[pk999]

The likelihood of simultaneous failure of 2-hdds is astronomical...unless there is a linked root cause beyond simply hitting each drives MTBF lottery, like inconsistent power delivery or a failing RAID controller. Hope the root cause(s) of the hdd failures are also being addressed. Thanks to all for all your hard work!

Fritz Kreeg

[Vlada]

Ok so what does that mean in english. Does that mean that we still have a long wait or that they are almost done? Sorry not trying to be rude just unsure what that translates to.

No OS, and mysql data isnt recovered yet... No we are not almost done.

[atldarkphoenix]

there goes being able to play this weekend

[Fallenswordsman]

Please, please take you tin foil hats off, calm down and and stop spamming this thread with useless crap.

Update... for those who care:

[20:39] <@TheAnswer> i am cloning the data on the current HDD's
[20:39] <@TheAnswer> to safely play with them
[20:40] <@TheAnswer> to not lose whatever is left
[20:40] <%Aceblade> excellent - do you think we could get Nova back online while you're attempting the recovery?
[20:40] <@TheAnswer> no
[20:40] <@TheAnswer> we dont have any OS there
[20:40] <@TheAnswer> i am working from a liveCD
[22:12] <@TheAnswer>  we also bought 2 more HDD's
[22:12] <@TheAnswer> for the cloning

Thanks Vlada, Elyssia, Aceblade et all. You all rock! When the server comes back up, it comes back. Cheers to the hard work from all and to the aforementioned for dealing with us on the forums here. *raises a pint of Guinness to all* Cheers!

[Ellyssia]

hehe I'd say share the Guinness, but... I'm still stuck at work dealing with my OWN tempermental servers for a few more hours today...

[Fallenswordsman]

Well, it'll be waiting for you when you are done =)

[argonyxon]

i found this in the old swgemu.org site:
Service Status

Chicago
Web: UP
Database: UP
Jira: UP

Denver
TC: Nova: UP

Lot of ppls wanna see it on the Server status gadget

why the swgemu.org still work? what the point have this site?

[Bavoratu]

i found this in the old swgemu.org site:
Service Status

Chicago
Web: UP
Database: UP
Jira: UP

Denver
TC: Nova: UP

Lot of ppls wanna see it on the Server status gadget

why the swgemu.org still work? what the point have this site?

Saw this too and was also confused.


Love the tool BTW!

[wjenet]

So...If you are newer to this game would you suggest re-rolling on Nova as Liberator is gonna be wiped at some point?

I'm still new to this project, so I can only relay what I've experienced and pieced together from other posts.

Liberator is currently the most fully functional environment for enjoying the game we all crave.

Nova, at least in the past couple of weeks, has had no mission terminals, and only one place in the universe that one is able to attack and kill creatures. Nova is run that way partly to avoid causing resource contention issues with Liberator; they are both running on the same physical server.

Not to mention that Nova gets wiped as development changes dictate ("fairly frequently"), and the SWGEmu team tries very hard to avoid wiping Liberator unless something's seriously amiss, so Liberator wipes are "infrequent".

I'm sure someone will correct me if I've got any of that wrong.

[Slayer45]

Well I've been staring at this thread bleary eyed for three days and it looks like it will be a few more before the situation is rectified. So I will take my leave of the forums until next week, maybe by tuesday or wednesday the servers will be back up. Until then Vlada and all you Devs keep up the good fight.

[Vlada]

Denver
TC: Nova: UP

Saw this too and was also confused.

I think that only checks if the actual box is online. It was made before we had two servers on the same box so this was pretty accurate back than (couldn't detect deadlocks though), now not so much.

[jonathonblade]

So...If you are newer to this game would you suggest re-rolling on Nova as Liberator is gonna be wiped at some point?

Honestly, I'd rather Nova be the only server, and all playing went toward testing the new code. That not being probable or plausible, I'd still rather see Liberator just get a full wipe and be done with it; our devs/staff can back to working on the real focus. Spend the time/resources where it matters.

[wjenet]

Ok so what does that mean in english. Does that mean that we still have a long wait or that they are almost done? Sorry not trying to be rude just unsure what that translates to.

The "cloning" is like making a photocopy. This allows them to use bolder attempts at recovering the data because they can work from a copy without fear of further damaging the original.

Short version is expect to continue waiting. Think more along the lines of additional days instead of minutes.

[Blazer6992]

Better get 1.0 working quickly. If it takes this long to fix the server, then it isn't fixable.

[Sillysith]

No OS, and mysql data isnt recovered yet... No we are not almost done.

Yaaayyy! Now we all can go do other stuff! No more useless crap!

er... wait.... My post is useless crap! Hahahaha!