Massive failure causes data loss!!

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

The suspicion right now is a hardware failure leading to a unpredictable system during a disk write, causing very drastic filesystem corruption, and I had to re-create several sections of the server tonight and reload them from backup. And then I had an "issue" with mysql which kept me busy the last hour and a half.

Lemme put that in plain English for everyone:

UT spilled some champagne on the server causing a small electrical fire that he then tried to put out with Velveeta fondue.

Bottom line: UT's gonna take the plastic cushion covers off the couch and put them on the server instead. The couch will henceforth be covered with back issues of InfoWorld