[asterisk-users] While the VoIP-Info.org site is down...

[mitcheloc]

Just a heads up guys. I'm currently attempting to recover the website
through spidering the Google cache.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

On 3/15/07, Drew Gibson <drew at oanda.com> wrote:
>
>  Stephen Bosch wrote:
>  Patrick May wrote:
>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Matt wrote:
>
>
>  Yikes.. you'd think a server would be running RAID.
>
> At any rate.. Please feel free to visit http://www.voip-wiki.us
>
> I have set this up to be able to hold information for the Asterisk
> community. I will also gladly allow others to mirror it.
>
> It is sitting in a climate controlled data center in Central PA on a server
> with RAID. Additionally, it is at the end of 95Megabytes/second on a BGP
> redundant connection.
>
> Please feel free to use it, if the community feels it can be useful...
> additionally, I would love to setup some rsync mirrors with others so that
> we can have redundant backups of this very valuable information.
>
>  The previous message to the list was they lost 3 of 4 drives in the array.
> I'm not sure of any RAID that can sustain 75% hardware loss and still
> function.
>
>  As somebody else has already pointed out -- "There must be more to it."
> Let's say three of four drives failed -- the odds of them failing at the
> same time are vanishingly slim; but if you're not paying attention, and
> you operate with a degraded volume, well... then you get what you deserve.
>
> RAID or no RAID, the site should have one or more mirrors.
>
> -Stephen-
>
>  The odds of multiple drive failure are a lot higher than you think. Failing
> power supplies or power spikes are common to all drives and controller
> failure on a drive can throw noise back onto the SCSI bus causing corruption
> on other drives. Although the other affected drives are not physically
> damaged, your data has evaporated none the less.
>
>  We have already had one multi-drive RAID failure on our main file server
> (only one drive was physically failed) and a single drive and power supply
> failure on our Asterisk box. RAID 1 and redundant power supplies saved the
> day.
>
>  Spring and Fall are the special Hardware Failure Seasons! Seems to affect
> power supplies, hard drives and light bulbs in particular.
>
>  regards,
>
>  Drew
>
>  --
> Drew Gibson
>
> Systems Administrator
> OANDA Corporation
> www.oanda.com
>
>
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