Faculty/Staff Novell server experienced a hard failure on the SYSTEM drives. Both drives in the mirrored set failed. Various restart efforts attempted. Ultimately the SYSTEM disk had to be restored from the daily backups but numerous problems were encountered during the restore.

Dan Marple Jr directed the recovery effort beginning at 7:30am, 3/6. The server was returned to service about 5:00pm.

The server appears to be stable but a final assessment will be made first thing on Friday morning, 3/7. Faculty/Staff can once again use their network drives and printers by restarting their computers and logging in to Novell.