[AT] System Outage

[steve smith]

Spencer, Thanks for the wonderful site, I've been a member since the book 
went around on the west coast .
Forget about the light weights that complain they don't count.
Thank You again
Smitty

At 09:59 PM 6/20/04 -0400, you wrote:
>The note I sent last Thursday about the new ATIS system and an update to my
>professional situation was sent literally less than an hour before the
>server that ran ATIS lost the only drive (boot drive) that wasn't on a RAID
>array.   The ATIS server was sold as part of my business last month with
>the clause in the business separation agreement that Piedmont Systems
>continue to host ATIS until the end of June.  Fortunately I was called in
>to consult with them and help restore the server.   Found out they had no
>backups after I left )-;
>
>Long story short:   A couple of long days with a Partition and MBR editing
>utility saved the data but not the drive.   The old system came backup
>yesterday.   But since I was no longer going to trust the old server and
>the care and administration it was getting I went ahead and initiated the
>changes to DNS last Friday to start the switch to the new equipment.   That
>is why still tonight some people are having trouble.  DNS is still
>propagating.  Thanks God the folks at Road Runner came early for me.   They
>weren't supposed to install my business class service until Saturday.  This
>saved us quite a bit of time.   At least ATIS will be back up, mostly, by
>tomorrow morning.
>
>Thanks for your patience and more to come later,
>
>PS  The OFES, Ford-Ferguson, and Steam-engine lists are still down as are
>several web based utilities at ATIS.   I will continue to work to restore
>services without stop or break
>
>PSS  Happy Father's day to all the father's out there!
>
>
>Spencer
>
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