From: Ernest Christley <echristl@cisco.com>
Date: 2005/01/13 Thu PM 04:54:05 GMT
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] other mailinglist

Please excuse the off topic post, but several of the Delta builders hang
here, so this is an easy way for me to get the word out.

The Deltaflyers list, my website, and just about all of my personal
computing life is down for the count until further notice.  After only 4
years of constant running, I finally have had that dreaded harddrive
failure.  My wife had some problems, so I logged in remotely and found
some badblock errors in the log files.  As I was looking at it, the
drive went belly up and corrupted the partition records.  It was less
that 6 hours between the first badblock reports and the complete
inability to seek parts of the drive. It wouldn't be so bad, except that I was running RAID-0 with /home
spread across the drives.  The /var directory resided on the healthy
drive, so the thankfully the website is basically intact. But I kept the
mailing list archive in /usr/lib/mailman, and I'm not sure if I'll be
able to salvage that.  But my home directory has my email archives and
several projects, most notably my pre-natal propeller optimization
program.

I'm being slow and careful, trying to recover as much as possible, so
I'm not ready to give a ETA for when it will be back up.

And just to think, I told myself a thousand times that I need to do a
backup.

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