[FFML] [ADMIN] Server upgrade news

Dennis Carr dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net
Thu Oct 6 16:01:22 PDT 2011


Heya, your friendly neighborhood list op here.

So bad news, good news, good news, bad news, bright side is the short 
version.

tl;dr version: primary disk died, warranty replacement, bigger disk 
accordingly, but I gotta reinstall and re-burn-in everything.

Bad news: the new server's primary disk borked.  I could recover nothing 
from that volume.

Good news: nothing critical beyond an installed applications list and 
configurations for the various services I run.

Good news: replacenet disk received yesterday, four times the size of the 
original primary volume.

Bad news: because I could recover nothing, this means that the only thing 
I do not have to do is restore the /home volume (where my users' data 
lives).  I will have to burn the server in again to make sure it's not 
going to do this again, reinstall all the necessary stuff again, 
reconfigure everything again, and somewhere in all of this, ship the unit 
out again.

Bright side: it has a bigger disk. =)

Somewhere in all of this, the seeds of an Aa! Megamisama fic are brewing. 
Now, if I have the time to do this between classes....

-Dennis
(list op)



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