Unix home directories unavailable, web pages affected too

[Bryan Dunlap]

As of right now, we are running with a recovered copy of the Unix home 
directory filesystem.  It is restored as of Friday, 7 November at 3:00 
AM, because the problem that happened this weekend had caused the 
backups later than that to fail.

We believe that this copy is good.  Please report immediately if you 
find files that are damaged or missing from before that time. 
Unfortunately, for files from later than that, there is nothing we can do.

The department web server that handles home directories (i.e., URLs 
containing a ~, and other older sites that have not been moved to the 
new physics.osu.edu) is up and running.  Other virtual group web servers 
that rely on these home directories have all been restarted and seem to 
be working.

If your Unix computer reports "Stale NFS file handle", please reboot it, 
and that should correct the problem.

On 11/09/2014 09:04 PM, Bryan Dunlap wrote:
> This afternoon we suffered a serious failure on a disk storage array. 
> This affected all central services, most of which were brought back 
> quickly. Unfortunately, we are still working on recovering the Unix 
> home directories from the storage. There is a lot of data, so the 
> recovery takes a lot of time.
>
> This affects people logging into Unix computers in the department. It 
> does not affect Windows computers.
> It also affects many department web pages, which are stored in the 
> Unix home directory space.
>
> Recovery is likely to take until at least 9:00 AM Monday.  This is an 
> early guess. It may take much longer, as the restoration of data may 
> not proceed linearly.
>

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