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Joe -----Forwarded Message----- From: Jeff Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 10, 2004 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Mail Archive on hold this week Since yesterday morning, incoming mail processing has been on hold. All mail is queueing and will be processed when we can turn things back on. Unfortunately, we won't be able to turn the mail processing back on for the whole week. We had hoped we would've had our new large capacity drives installed by now, but the drives were back-ordered and haven't shown up yet. We found a new vendor that has them in stock and are rushing the delivery this week so we can get them in next weekend. As part of our preparation for the new drives, we are creating brand new filesystem partitions. We usually do partition copies when moving data around because it's fast (on the order of 5 to 8 hours). However, the filesystem partitions for The Mail Archive have existed and been moved around for years. We want to have a clean partition for the first time in a long time and this requires a slower recursive file copy. We started the file copy yesterday to a large raid partition. At its current rate, we're projecting it to take another 5 to 7 days to finish. As soon as it is done we will install the new 400GB drives in the disk array and move the new partition over. Once that is done, we will begin processing the mail that has been on hold. Therefore it might take an additional couple days to catch up on the mail backlog. Again, we're sorry about having the system on hold for such a long period of time. We tried setting up a few alternate solutions to make the transition seamless but we ran into problems with those options. This will be good for the long-term health of the service. Jeff Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
