[FFML] [ADMIN] Server upgrade news

[DB Sommer]

Thanks for all the hard work

On 10/6/2011 7:01 PM, Dennis Carr wrote:
> 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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