Changes

WSO's user and mail server experienced a severe crash on December 31, 2006. After installing a system security update, the server did not finish rebooting successfully. The server has been down or nonfunctional since then. Upon arriving on campus, we discovered that the RAID (the software system designed to prevent data loss due to the physical failure of one of the machine's hard disks ) had been corrupted. After numerous troubleshooting attempts and support calls, we concluded that it is was unrecoverable and restored from a backup. Unfortunately, and contrary to what the WSO staff thought, our most recent full backup dates to September 9, 2006. We are currently running with all normal services but with data from this backup.''This means that all changes since September 9th have been lost permanently.''

All data on the server now exist as they did on September 9. Any changes made after September have been lostpermanently.