Degradation

[swestrup]

Today I woke up to an alert from Webigail (Pooq's web and mail server) that her main raid array is now operating in degraded mode. This means that one of the array drives failed to sync, and the array is still working, but is no longer redundant (ie, a drive failure would lose us storage).

Now, this is probably NOT due to any sort of major disk failure or the other raid partitions would have died as well. So, its probably a minor glitch and completely fixable, even remotely. That doesn't mean I welcome the news though.

I am not currently set up to do remote maintenance on Webigail, and certainly was hoping I wouldn't have to. After all, the last time she's needed anything like this was something like two years ago. I thought I had a reasonable expectation of being able to work here for 3 to 6 months and then go home without once having had to intervene in her operations.

I've been here less than a week.  :-/

Comments

[americanstd.livejournal.com]

when I saw the title of your post, I was thinking that they made you dress up in the moose suit and sing 'Barrett's Privateers' with a jug of maple syrup at the company's morning meeting...


that's degredation!

[sps.livejournal.com]

Because maple syrup can't sing worth beans, that's why.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

:D

I never even noticed that americanstd had dangled his modifier.

[(Anonymous)]

that's how we roll in Cali... dangling our participles all over the place.

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Keep me posted. I got a message like that on my server at home recently, and I still need to figure out what to do about it. I did take a full backup of all user data.

[swestrup]

As I later posted, I was able to fix the problem remotely.