Thanks. It is a great service and we appreciate your efforts.

Update. The server is back up and running. There are several days missing (end of Feb) and a few hours from today.

Also, if you'll notice I had to take down the old 2004 archives because I started to run out of space. If it's important to have the 2004 data up, I could probably get those back.

Do you need a larger hard drive? I'm sure we can come up with something.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;99699]Do you need a larger hard drive? I'm sure we can come up with something.[/QUOTE]

The current server has two 80G drives (mirrored RAID) with about 10G remaining (after removing the 2004 data). Space-wise we'll be okay for a little longer. But if people want the 2004 back up, then I would need to swap the array (I'd probably upgrade the OS and the httpd at the same time). So it's really up to the GIMPS community.

Step 1: Figure out the cost to upgrade.

[SIZE=1][I]Edit: IIRC, you back up the data to DVD. Is mirroring necessary?[/I][/SIZE]

I use mirrored drives as to ensure server uptime and redundancy. And even with that I still archive to less volatile media (i.e. DVD's) every so often.

I may have some spare drives to throw in that have more capacity and so I'll be able to bring 2004 back, but that won't be until I find some spare time to do so.

Have you considered lzip instead of gzip or bzip2?

[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20010405210126/lzip.sourceforge.net/faq.html[/url]

Oddly enough I have not. For some strange reason, I'm a little reluctant. But I'm sure I could be convinced :whistle:

lzip ... is that the compression algorithm invented by famed minimalist computer guru Dick "Bupkus"?

(Not to be confused with the famous ex-chicago-Bears player.)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;99968]lzip ... is that the compression algorithm invented by famed minimalist computer guru Dick "Bupkus"?

(Not to be confused with the famous ex-chicago-Bears player.)[/QUOTE]
You didn't read through the page : it's Lessis-Moore's algorithm...
Really some good ideas behind that. Finally, storing all my data with lzip and reformatting harddisks would save me lots of time I currently spent on searching old files and - even worse - comparing the zillion versions I have of each given file to find the latest (correct) version - which is of course never there...

I'm aware that something is wrong with the server right now. I'll work on getting it resolved. It may be a day or so as I'm quite busy right now, but I'll get to it as soon as I can. Thanks for the patience everyone.