Well, there is a ridiculous problem getting security clearance into the NAP of Americas at this time of night. Stephen is waiting in the lobby trying to get in. Another tech is on his way from Miami beach to sort this out.
We had a drive fail DURING the backup process that made the kernel panic, we replaced the drive and the RAID is now actively rebuilding, the server is up and running during the process but it may be slightly slower as the rebuild continues.
Thanks for all the excellent updates guys, and for all your efforts. Hope the access issue gets sorted out for you! They forget that their night time is many people's day time.