Website Disaster Recovery

March 6, 2006

On February 23rd, the PACE server experienced a catastrophic disk failure — Ouch. We have seen a wide range of disasters over the course of the past year throughout the world. The PACE disaster last week barely ranks among these, it was more of an irritation. The narrative below outlines what happened.

Late in the evening of February 23rd, we initiated a remote reboot of the server due to some email problems we had been experiencing. The server did not…