lwood

Updates:

09:30 PDT, 08 May 2007: Service being restored to many sites as content is restored from offsite backup. Default page for not-yet-enabled sites now loads properly, instead of displaying rowanf's front page by right of alphabetical superiority.
22:15 PDT 07 May 2007: Webmail service restored.
22:00 PDT 07 May 2007: TinyFugue, the popular MUSH/MUD/MUCK/MOO/etc client, restored especially for cadhla.
21:30 PDT 07 May 2007: "...uh oh."; Found out that the dying hard drive corrupted its data in transfer--not unexpected. Will be restoring from offsite backup overnight.
16:30 PDT 06 May 2007: POP service restored, this time for sure!; E-Mail Lists are now back up: Hrafnar, BLB, all that.
10:55 PDT 06 May 2007: ~~POP and~~ IMAP ~~are~~ is restored; users should be able to download e-mail with other clients now.

Latest News, Newest on Top:

0930 PDT, 08 May 2007: Web servers' static content is being restored, site by site, as I verify each one. Isn't it awfully nice to have a backup? Also, the default page for any website I hadn't turned back on yet was going to conjure.com, and while I like

rowanf a whole pile, the folks turning up for Hot Jedi Porn (or whatever) just wouldn't get it.

2130 PDT, 07 May 2007: Webmail is back! However, many personal settings did not survive; they were on the failing drive in a section I didn't copy, and further copying will avail me naught (see below). Mail is safe, but folders may have to be re-subscribed, filters re-made, and so on.

Buuut... it looks like the failing hard drive didn't quite pull through, taking particular care to crap all over the biggest, busiest sites, with other files blasted in a funfun shotgun pattern. Don't Panic!--I had planned ahead for this with a handy offsite backup, from which I will be restoring tonight. E-Mail doesn't seem to have been affected, only web pages. Once that is done, the websites will be brought back up over the course of the week--the simple, static content will come up quite quickly, but the features may take longer to implement. There's a lot of changes underneath lorien's new hood, and it simply doesn't do to be hasty.

To-Do List:

~~Get the mailing list software, Ecartis, working again. I am going from a source code build to a precompiled package, so stuff needs to be picked up and moved around a bit.~~

~~Make sure that POP and IMAP are a go, which will make e-mail go for people who use a program to read e-mail (Thunderbird, Eudora, Mail.app, Outlook Express, usw~~

~~The first website to bring online will be nerdalfheim.org, so that webmail service is restored.~~
- [Update: This is now scheduled for some time this evening, PDT.]
- [Re-Update: It happened this evening instead, because it wasn't a job to do with 10 hours' sleep over two days, plus heavy ritual, plus heavy lifting of furniture, usw.]