Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Fileserver Kept Crashing

One of our servers kept crashing yesterday - well not crashing actually but stopping serving files and then (perhaps) starting again a random number of minutes yesterday.

A reboot would solve the problem temporarily.

Pulled the server down last night and scanned the data volume thinking it might be corruption (have seen it before). The scan started and then stalled - utilisation figures were good for a few hours then went to zero.

I created a new server and mapped the disk (it's on a SAN) to the new one and it seems to be OK - so it might have been the server, not the disk, but I still suspect the disk and will transfer the data to a new drive over the Christmas shutdown.

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