[FFML] [ADMIN] Server upgrade news

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Yeah. Seriously. The FFML would have died years ago without you. Props.

On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:58 PM, DB Sommer wrote:

> 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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