Merlin Moncure wrote:
> We had several good backups since the previous outage so it's not
> clear the events are related but after months of smooth operation I
> find that coincidence highly suspicious. As always, we need to suspect
> hardware problems but I'm highly abstracted from them -- using esx +
> san.
Ah, so you're subject not only to hardware flaws but also to
virtualization layer bugs :-)
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