The server is in the house!

Yay, the new box came by UPS today. 3.0GHz/2MB Cache, Xeon 800MHz Front Side Bus for PowerEdge SC 1420. All I need now is time to install it. Realistically it won't happen until Sunday afternoon, but then *everything* will be back, only faster and better. The old server was a 700MHz PIII so things should become more snappy on the new one.

So, look for the rest to be in place by Sunday night (PST) - if not, bug me so I know you're waiting. :-)

Most sites up

Just a couple of them left, due to space constraints and/or software not installed yet. The remainder should be available when the new server is in house and configured, so hang in there! This should happen sometime early next week.

Getting there...

Got email for all domains back in-house. Some of the web apps are back up too, on the latest Apache. Still need to configure DBD::Pg properly before the PostgreSQL-driven sites are back on-line, that should happen tonight. Next will be to salvage jobs and scripts from the SCSI-disks.

Also need compile and install Common Lisp and OCaml for some of the web apps. All my high-resolution photos and music will have to wait for the new server as I don't have enough space on this one. Then there's CVS, FTP, GeneWeb, POP3 and a few more things to install and configure before it's all back to normal. More work ahead...

Data is flowing

Last night was spent gutting the old server. Today I've transferred the SCSI card to the workstation and hooked the two SCSI disks up to it. The copying is going fine, in an open case - no more room in my workstation for more disks.

Which is a problem also in that I can't get all data over to restore everything. I'll be missing most of my pictures and music. :-(

Hopefully I'll at least get operational on email tonight so I can point the MX records back here. Maybe I'll get to enabling some of the web applications also.

Fedora Core 5

... is installed on my workstation/new server. Next step is to rescue the data off the drives from the old server. This entails ripping its SCSI card out and plugging it into my workstation, and then copy data from the SCSI disks there to the SATA disks. That should get me back in touch with email. After that will be setting up services, webapps and the rest.

A plan for recovery

Looks like I'll need to re-purpose my workstation as my server. So I'll need to re-install OS and salvage all the data from the disks in my old server, re-configure and put it on-line. Over time I'll need a new server. Either way, a lot of work is ahead...

Server outage

Sunday night, the server froze and said "beeeep beep beep" when I tried to restart it. This continued through Monday morning. Monday (last) night I gutted it, cleaned it and put it back together. Same thing. Looks like it is toast.