Subj : cvs (and vert and wiki and www and ftp) .synchro.net back online
To   : All
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jan 09 2016 08:18 pm

The Linux server that runs cvs.synchro.net (and other Synchronet-related
servers/services) died unexpectedly Thursday night (the 7th). I came home from
work and noticed the server was "off" (the power light was off), pressing the
system's power button did not power the system on but just caused the
power-light blink (like the system was in a sleeping low-power mode). More
presses or holds of the power button did nothing. Removing and replacing the
power cable did nothing (power light stayed off now). Removing all the I/O
cards and detaching the hard disk did nothing. Replacing the power supply did
nothing.

So... bad motherboard.

I moved the hard disk and I/O cards to a new system and when it booted (Debian
Linux 7.8), the file system check (fsck) failed with hard errors. Drive
self-tests failed as well.

So... bad hard disk too.

So new hard disk, imaged with the old data (some lost) and upgraded to the
latest Debian (Jessie) on a much faster motherboard/CPU/memory platform, and
cvs.synchro.net lives on! vert/www/wiki/ftp etc. are dependant on the files
stored on cvs.synchro.net, so everything was offline during this ~40 hour
process.

Welcome back!

                                            digital man

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