dave@lsuc.UUCP (08/08/86)
Our entire Fujitsu 160 Mb disk drive had to be replaced, so
we lost everything on it. User files were backed up to tape,
but the /usr/spool partition wasn't. As a result, we lost
everything in /usr/spool, including mail and news. We're
now running normally again.
If you sent mail through lsuc and it was received here before
Wednesday morning (August 6) 11 a.m. (when we crashed), and
didn't leave before the crash, then it's gone and you should
re-send. If it didn't get here before the crash, it will have
been queued up and processed properly after we came up (Thursday
4 p.m.).
If you sent mail to anyone on lsuc and it was received before
2 a.m. Tuesday or not transmitted until after we came back up,
then it was received. Otherwise it was likely never read.
(There's an automatic nightly backup of /usr/spool/mail to our
other disk.)
David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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