- Server – Up
- Requests – Up
- Audiobooks – Up
- Movies
- Starting with A – Present
- B-Z – Still Waiting
- TV Shows
- G-Z – Present
- A-F – Still Waiting
- New Shows – Present
- Kids Movies – Still Waiting
- Kids TV – Still Waiting
October 16, 2023
The new server is up and running, and all software should be present. Now just on to the restore of the files. Today one of the four drives showed up, so some media should be showing up.
October 15, 2023
The system is going to be hard down for a little bit. Turns out there are likely some hardware issues with the server itself that led to the ongoing data problems. Good chance I will end up replacing it entirely, but we’ll see if there’s a possibility a repair is the better option.
October 13, 2023
I’m going to try and use this page for updates to the system’s status. If there’s nothing new you should be able to assume all systems are operational, but also please let me know if something isn’t working right, I might not be aware yet.
You may (or may not) have noticed that everything has been, let’s say unstable for the past bit here. Long story short I ran into a situation where I was running out of space and one of the hard drives was failing at the same time. In the process of replacing the struggling drive and upgrading a smaller one (including a bad drive from Costco and an interesting return process) the storage system lost all of the data. I have an online backup, but due to the vast amount of space it takes, the easiest way to get it back is for them to physically mail me drives with the files on them, but that will take a while. I wish I knew how long, but it could be days or weeks.
What this means is that as of now that the server is up and running, but all of the media behind it is missing. So you can see things as if they were there, but they will not play. The request page is still working, and you can submit requests, they just won’t download until I get everything else situated again.
For those of you who use audiobooks, that is the one piece that should be working normally. Thanks to the fact that audio takes way less data than video I was able to download and restore those easily.
I’ll send out new emails as I have more information to report, but let me know if you have any questions or issues with things that should be working.
TL;DR: The media storage crapped the bed and I’m working on getting the data back, but don’t have an ETA yet. Feel free to request things and use audiobooks, but don’t expect any video for a bit.