Wow, sorry to hear about that mate; that's gutting :(  Are you running smartd 
on that system?  Unless the system got hit by lightning or similar, I would 
have expected some warning from those disks that they were about to fail.

Paul


On Saturday 01 May 2010 12:59:17 Dom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just set up BackupPC and have to say it's brilliant. I'm using it
> to replace out current Netbackup based system which luckily is still
> running along side the new BackupPC system. Reading from this list has
> been invaluable.  I work for a major local government emergency service
> in the UK and compared to the more expensive alternatives it's winning
> friends all round here. Anyway, I'm here to vent a little because I'm
> very sad. I've set up BackupPC to back up to a Coraid 20TB unit with a
> Raid6 configuration that can tolerate 2 disk failures. I just logged in
> to do my Sysadmin checks and found 3 bloody disks have failed totally
> ruining my BackupPC filesystem. 18 Linux system backups, 5TB of backups,
> hundreds of fulls and incrementals all down the pan. The tape backup
> side isn't even started yet so I can't even recover my BackupPc config,
> we've got some engineers coming in to install that side in a couple of
> weeks.
> 
> All that work, all that effort. Not BackupPC's fault at all. But still I
> could cry. Apologies for posting here but no one else could understand
> my current anguish.
> 
> Buggery bugger bugger bum shit bob shag.
> 
> and Cheers...
> 
> Dom
> 
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