This morning I came into work and found that I had issues with my sipXecs
instance. Here are the symptoms:

   - Web admin / user portal down
   - All phones not registered to sipXecs
   - sipXecs not registered to ITSP
   - sipXecs machine responds to ping
   - sipXecs machine is accessible through putty

I rebooted the machine and noticed that the XFS service failed to start up.

I figured it might be a hardware failure, so I grabbed a known working
backup and restored it on my backup machine. This backup is a disk image,
not a sipXecs backup. I have tested this procedure a number of times in the
past (even with the same backup) and it has always worked as expected. This
time, however, I ran into the exact same symptoms as I did with the primary
machine. Based on this, the chances that it's a hardware issue are low
(same symptoms with two different machines).

The only thing that I could think of is that it had something to do with
the date and time. So I set the date in the bios to a day after the backup
was created, restored the backup again and voila, it worked! Once I set the
date back to the current date, the problem happened again.

My sipXecs reboots once a week Monday mornings, so the date in question was
likely sometime between June 18th and 25th.

I am using sipXecs 4.2.0.

Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Since it's date related, I
was thinking that maybe it could be a virus that's dormant until a certain
date? I did a search, but didn't find anything that sounded like it could
be related. I'm not too familiar with viruses on Linux (or with Linux
itself).
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