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Originally Posted by Nate Smith
Not being directly involved, I don't have all the details, but based on Brandon's posts, I'm assuming the following: - The hard drive's internal SMART diagnostics determined there was a potential problem with the drive.
- In running a full hard drive read/write diagnostic, it was determined that the drive was indeed failing.
- The drive was then replaced, and based on the series of messages I got, I'm guessing RHEL was installed, then the "hosting software" package(cPanel, etc), and finally the backup of the previous HDD was restored.
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Yep you got it all, Nate.
One more detail -- Brandon was going to wait until morning to turn the forums on, so he could double check everything (cd-media, ufh icons, etc.) but forgot the nightly backup would turn the forums on automatically. So he woke up to 4000+ emails showing SQL errors and server errors.
FUN TIMES.
minor issues .. everything went smooth. let me know if/when you find weird stuff. I'll be working on firstwiki later this afternoon.