RICHMOND (AP) -- Virginia's centralized information technology superagency is continuing work to restore an outage that left several state agencies unable to do their work.
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency says it will be bringing services up throughout the day Friday after maintenance and repair work was completed overnight.
At least two dozen agencies were affected by the Wednesday afternoon crash.
More than 60 percent of the servers attached to the state's storage system have been fixed and are operational as of 10 a.m. State agencies are testing those servers.
But officials say the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles still can't process driver's licenses and some other agencies continue to be impacted.
DMV can process all other transactions, including vehicle decals and titles, transcripts, etc. However, customers needing driver's license or ID card transactions should visit the DMV website at www.dmvNOW.com or call (804) 497-7100 before going to the DMV. DMV is updating important service messages online and on the phone system.
The state's chief information officer, Sam Nixon, said there was a failure in a primary data storage center at the Virginia Information Technology Agency in Chester on Wednesday afternoon.
Nixon stated it will take an all-nighter to replace the failed memory cards and restore the system. Full function may not be restored until Monday.
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