savannah.gnu.org status

The server that hosts GNU and other projects, savannah.gnu.org had a catastrophic failure over the weekend. A message in the savannah-users mailing list describes the problems with a RAID array which eventually led to filesystem corruption. This took out the source code repositories for the projects hosted there. "The last backup was performed while RAID was buggy, and lots of files were reported missing, in particular for CVS/SVN/Git/Hg. Hence the last backup is incomplete. [...] And, our last full backup from tape is from end of April. Normally tape backups are more recent, but there were independent backup issues. We've not discussed since in detail as we're focusing on recovering the data asap. " Status updates are available via fsfstatus on identi.ca. (thanks to David P. Reed).

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