I think it's been about 7 months since my server went down, which in the life of a computer is an incredibly long time. I built the system a little over two years ago, so it's definitely showing its age, but should for the most part still live up to its intended use. Ah, sorry for that, I missed its comforting hum, I'm getting a little emotional.
Anyhow, The 'crash' was a harddrive failure on what happened to be the disk that the OS was residing on. It was also the disk where all the home accounts were, the databases, the websites, and... Sigh, pretty much everything. Except! Except, the music and movie, ummm... backups. They were on two other disks that are still accessible.
This however doesn't mean the server is back up and running, it means that I'm not going to bludgeon myself with the computer for not backing up some...
Haha... ok, just went through a slightly fun telephone survey about beer. Yes I like beer, no I don't feel discriminated against by bud, No I don't think Coors light is unintelligent. All in all, it just made me want beer. The choices were Big Rock, Coors Light, Bud, Old Style Pilsner, Molson Canadian that they were interested in. I like Big Rock's range of beers, and quite enjoy Grasshopper and their honey brown. The rest I'd drink if they were the only option. After the whole survey was done, the very nice young lady asks for the first three characters of my postal code to verify that the survey was done in the correct province. I give them to her, and she says that they're not coming up as the correct province. I say they're for Ontario. She asks for my Manitoba one. I don't have a Manitoban postal code, I say. As she's quickly wrapping up her probably pointless survey with me, I relalize that they called my 204 number, which along with my 416 number go to the same phone. Haha, take that Ipsos Reid, Voip's got your number!
Now back to the computer, the plan, is to get two 500GB drives, to create a raid 1 array (Mirrored, both disks contain the exact same info, for redundancy), an external harddrive to back up everthing really important (like photos of my kick ass friends...) and then reinstall the OS and set everything back up. That will take a while, unfortunately, as I don't have a whole bunch of cash for the disks. I could get one 500GB disk now and run the risk of losing everything on that disk, but would have the external HDD for a backup for now.
I do want to get this damn computer back up, for the webserver and the mythtv setup, since I currently have two computers that aren't running anything.
More to come, hopefully I'll get computer parts for my birthday, and all will be good soon.
Cheers,.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
It's finally good to here that not all is lost. I think if we all throw in a few bucks we can afford a fairly decent size hard drive to throw in there.
well whats the max size that you could hook in there. 500 seems a little tight.
well matt has the one 500 already and yeah 500 can get fill pretty fast pretty quick, but matt was planning on running them as a raid array, if we have it run seperately that would be a full terabyte, which should last us awhile, we just run the risk of losing data that we can't backup on the external hd.
matt look at prices, i'm in for $50
I'm also awaiting two Dell Towers which I plan to set up as server and was even playing with the idea of registering screaminsanity.ca.
Unfortunately, the machines are used and come sans harddrive, so I would have to buy a couple. Which means I probably won't be running raid right away as a 320GB cost $95 and to set up raid on each on would be close to $400 of Harddrive.
Anyway, my point was that these could be used as storage and possibly a redundant backup for holycalamity in case such a catastrophy should occur again.
Post a Comment