Wow, sorry to hear about that mate; that's gutting :( Are you running smartd on that system? Unless the system got hit by lightning or similar, I would have expected some warning from those disks that they were about to fail.
Paul On Saturday 01 May 2010 12:59:17 Dom wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just set up BackupPC and have to say it's brilliant. I'm using it > to replace out current Netbackup based system which luckily is still > running along side the new BackupPC system. Reading from this list has > been invaluable. I work for a major local government emergency service > in the UK and compared to the more expensive alternatives it's winning > friends all round here. Anyway, I'm here to vent a little because I'm > very sad. I've set up BackupPC to back up to a Coraid 20TB unit with a > Raid6 configuration that can tolerate 2 disk failures. I just logged in > to do my Sysadmin checks and found 3 bloody disks have failed totally > ruining my BackupPC filesystem. 18 Linux system backups, 5TB of backups, > hundreds of fulls and incrementals all down the pan. The tape backup > side isn't even started yet so I can't even recover my BackupPc config, > we've got some engineers coming in to install that side in a couple of > weeks. > > All that work, all that effort. Not BackupPC's fault at all. But still I > could cry. Apologies for posting here but no one else could understand > my current anguish. > > Buggery bugger bugger bum shit bob shag. > > and Cheers... > > Dom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
