Sorry you are missing your vacation. We have had a couple of horrors like that. One was detailed at The 10 stages of Bug hunting and the sweet smell of success.

If that doesn't cheers you up I'll tell you how I spent the first few days of my vacation last week. So I leave the UK with everything humming. Off the plane in Australia at 0130, switch on the phone: 

SMS devel3.xxxxxxx.org has a problem. Please check your email.

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Well a problem was not quite an accurate description. Chernobyl is more like it. Before I left we noted that our new development server only had 1/2 the expected HDD space. It is a RAID V SCSI setup and should have had 143GB available but was only showing 70 odd. This mattered to us as we use this box to stream all our production backups to. So we ask the datacenter to INVESTIGATE why. They decide they have found the problem and decide the redo the containers (of course the take no backups first, nor have we authorised them to change anything). So the short story is that the change to the raid config led to the system rebuilding the containers which apparently crashed at 94%, and the machine refused to boot. In fact it was completely wiped as you expect when you bugger up the raid.

No great problem I think I'll just restore it from image. But you know Murphy. As luck would have it the machine had been killed while it was writing the daily image to remote backup. We only keep a single full image of this machine due to size constraints and the fact that the data is so volatile (yes that policy is about to change!). And that was now >corrupt<

Net result - a hand rebuild from source followed by restoration of the devel environment. Although we didnt have a full image we did have everything needed in the sequenced backups but it all had to be done by hand. Just what you feel like with a serious case of Jetlag on your first days off in a year.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: I cancelled my Christmas vacation by tachyon
in thread I cancelled my Christmas vacation by pg

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