Todd Klindt's SharePoint Admin Blog

Some of you may have noticed that my site was down for a few days. I had a hardware failure that started about 30 seconds after I left the house for a trip to Seattle. I had my lovely wife do some troubleshooting for me and it turns out my SQL server blew a drive, the drive my databases are on of course, and it was stuck in Check Disk. I had her shut it down to hopefully reduce any damage that had been done. Practicing what I preach, I was mirroring my Content Databases to another SQL instance. I wasn't, however, mirroring my Config DB. That kept me from just setting up a SQL alias and bringing it all back up. When I got home yesterday I tried to recover my Config DB but it was dead. I rebuilt the farm and attached my Content DBs and I'm back up and going. I have the Netcast I recorded Monday morning, but I haven't edited it yet. Hopefully I'll get that online today.

Thanks for your patience everyone.

tk