While the work I did yesterday seemed to have solved most of the problems we were having another problem reared its ugly head during the evening. Two of our disk staging units went offline causing quite a few backups to fail. It would appear that the SATA unit where the two filesystems were located ended up in a hung state that needed a power cycle of the unit to clear the problem. The units are back online for tonight's backups and we will see tomorrow morning if the problem re-occurred.

On the home front, it was great to be able to talk to my son over MSN early this evening. It had been a while since I had talked to him, and even longer since I had seen him (we were able to get a video session going). He looked good and seems to be enjoying himself despite being a little bored as a temp job he is doing.

Good night!