CVS is busted

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 11/18/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On 11/17/06, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > As of about 8:40 today the CVS box threw a SMART error regarding one
> > > of its drives.  As a result most of the CVS box is presently mounted
> > > read only.  We are working to correct this issue but expect CVS to be
> > > up and down today.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Dell has been dispatched and will arrive in 4 hours.  CVS will be down
> > until further notice.
>
>
> Further notice will go well into tonight and probably into tomorow.
> The drives are pretty messed up and mgalgoci has done great work to
> get the array's rebuilt but we aren't confident the filesystem will be
> in working order, we may have to restore from backup.
>

Thanks for keeping us informed.

Just for information, what backup type/program are you using?
How easy is it to recover from bare metal?