[PLUG] Problem on Csociety / Sanmateo

[Mahadev Appan]

I am not sure if the sys admin(s) for Csociety / Sanmateo will see this, but 
have any of you noticed any problems on these boxes?

Today I tried logging into sanmateo only to find my home directory did not 
exist. Then I remembered it is NFS mounted off csociety which was undergoing 
a hard disk upgrade.

Now, my home directory exists again, which is great, but the big problem is: 
the files there are from ages ago!

I am guessing that something screwed up during the upgrade and the admins 
had to reload from a backup. And the last backup may have been made a very 
long time ago.

I hope I am wrong, but does anyone here know if this is the case? Is this 
situation temporary or is the recent state of the files not going to be 
restored?

Sigh. This is sooo typical. I spend my time telling other people to backup 
their stuff, and then completely ignore my own advice by not backing up data 
on a box I use very often. I suppose everyone needs to get burnt at least 
once.

Oh well. I hope someone here can clue me in on what is going on.

Later,
Dev
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