[AT] System Outage

[Jerry Rhodes]

THANK YOU SIR, and the rest get off his case, we know the whole story, NOW
Jerry NW Ohio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <syost at triad.rr.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>; <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>;
<farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>;
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:59 PM
Subject: [AT] System Outage


> 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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