Wow, I couldn’t believe I had to rebuild my Linux server, yet again after 2+ years of operation. I always suspected the old 80Gb Maxtor drive to be flawed, but not this serious. I procastinated in fixing it and too laxed on the backup. Well, last week thursday, after a city-wide power failure, my drive got corrupted. I was able to recover some of my critical files, such as mail and some Perl scripts. I had saved previous WordPress DB files offsite manually every 10-15 days. I had to go to Fry’s to get (and paid a lot) for new SATA hard drive and a PCI controller for it. I then proceeded installing Fedora Core 7, just released a week before, and recompiled and reconfig’ed the stuff that I needed. I’m able to get most of them working as of this blog entry.
Hopefully this will buy me another 2+ years of operation. Strangely enough, I feel pretty good in the new/fresh installation process and results — even though the process was tedious and frustrating at times. I guess I get the satisfaction in solving problems: the only reason why I will always be a sysadmin!
Building IT
Jot It Down
Good thing that wasnt prod 😉
Well, it was sorta a production issue because my Dad has the email address for amid.com in his business cards, so he wanted that server fixed ASAP!
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