The System is Down, The System is Down

What a crazy day. While I was off shooting a workflow video with Joe McNally in San Diego, (which is being deluged with rain and pestilence), our server farm was experiencing a double-drive failure on the RAID 10 rack. What does that mean? It means a statistical unlikelyhood in hardware failure caused us to have to spend about five hours restoring the server to a new rack from the hourly backups. Ugh.

All’s well now, but it was a harrowing day. Sorry for the outages.

Much thanks to Alex and the guys at Sliqua.com for getting us back up so rapidly, and without data loss.

And if you’re not familiar with the reference in the title of this post…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4gqsuww6lw

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Author: David Schloss

David Schloss is the director of the Mac Create Network and the Aperture Users Network, a professional photographer, writer, editor and photographic educator who specializes adventure sports, travel and lifestyle photography. Schloss is the author of the books Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches and Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time. Schloss is the former Technical Editor for Photo District News, a position he held for six years.