I am rather confused. One evening I had a server which had died. I went to reboot it and noticed it was stuck on the "GRUB" boot screen. I then noticed a hard drive had failed. I put a new hard drive in, booted into rescue mode and reinstalled grub.
The server booted, I then told mdadm to resync the new drive, and everything was good again.
Until, I noticed that the drive for some reason, had data which was 14days old, 26th Apr. So I had to restore a more recent backup to get the server up to date. However, this worries me is there, why did this happen?
Thanks