Another Server Migration
After several complaints from my family about not being able to access the local network file shares while I was playing video games on my computer, I decided to put all of my data onto the new server “DuckTape”, and move the website back to the old web server. This makes my family happy and really shouldn’t effect the website unless I get hit by digg, but even then it shouldn’t make that much of a difference.
What really prompted moving the hard drives over to the other computer was the fact that due to a hard reboot I lost all data contained on my RAID5 array. Apparently RAID5 is awsome at protecting data from hard drive failure but it absolutely sucks at dealing with power outages and the like. Luckily as a good sysadmin I keep regualr backups. After 17 hours of transfering 1.5TB of data onto a new RAID0 array on DuckTape, I was back in bussiness. The only thing that got lost from the failure was a small portion of an Ubuntu 8.10 Beta .ISO file that was only partaily done downlading when the backup was run. THIS is how easy it is to restore data when you KEEP UP TO DATE BACKUPS.