What happened? Well, I woke up yesterday to our primary server saying that there was a disk error and couldn't be written to. So I followed protocol and shut down and scanned the disk. When I got her back up, the database said that the mudcat database was in the spot that was damaged on the disk. So I followed protocol and did what the pros recommend to restore the data.

What can you do to help? Send contributions to paypal (max@mudcat.org). We're well short of our monthly expenses. Seems to always fall off in the summer.

What can I do? Backup more often, rebuild the RAID array, learn to replicate the database real-time, format another machine to run another DNS server... As usual, everything is harder with the Mudcat because of its high volume of traffic and the fact that we have 4GB of data now.

Got PM's working, the other stuff is gonna have to wait… my real job needs me today.