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From: pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant)
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Subject: weekend problems with rutgers
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Date: 23 May 88 19:08:07 GMT
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On Friday May 20th, rutgers lost its / and /usr partitions.  We were able to
recover the root partition but /usr had to be restored from tape.  I only
found out about this late Saturday afternoon.  Checking the system I found
that our news `active' file was not restored causing inews to squirrel away
every article that came in - all 12K+ (that's articles!!!) of them.  rutgers
has been churning away on these all weekend.  I do not believe that any news
has been lost.  Mail, on the other hand, was lost.  How much I just don't
know.  Any mail that could have been in transit hat entered rutgers between
the hours of 4am and 8pm on Friday may have been lost.