AGS RESTORED (Hard Disk had entered read only then died)

[zog]

Yo Nik, was this in one of your locallhy hosted servers?
Have a bash @ Linux software raid, I think on a lot of the recent debians and ubuntus its fairly easy to set up on the installer without dicking about.
Note it aint perfect - but still a step up.
Next time over I'll explain more if you're interested.

I'd suggest a cheaparse SSD as another option, but I just had one die on me at work (32GB SUPER TALEND brand).

[[DRuG]NikT]

Yeh this was on a colohosted box though, with no raid.

[AFX]

har har sk0t's a mofo

[zog]

Yeh this was on a colohosted box though, with no raid.

Ah, no worries.

http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ <-- been using this to backup colo'd boxes, cool thing it has history (as long as you keep the history)..

like you can ask it to recover /home/username/Maildir/ from 2 weeks ago, provided you are keeping deltas that far back.

disadvantage is it is MUCH slower than rsync, though it tunnels over ssh like rsync.

[sk0t]

That sounds really handy zog, I have to try it out on one of my boxs.

ATM the boxs that have data I really care about gets backed up via a small Perl script that I'd run when I feel its time to take a backup.

[[LE]Postizzle]

wow good work nikt,mouldy and skot.
i think i lucked out as the day after ags went down i overclocked the shit outta my cpu and scrambled the ram so im now waiting for more ram to be delivered (this time im buying ocz instead of crappy kingston).
but i hope to be back online in the next couple of days.

have a good one and hope to see and speak to you all on AGS/teamspeak in the next couple of days

[sk0t]

Well Mouldy got a chance to speak to the host today and they said the hard drive swap out should be done by today but they cant install the OS today

So I'm guessing we should be back online by Wednesday night :S

[Tyoson]

That's bloody weak. Change host, it doesn't take any longer then 1 and a half hours to install a new bloody OS.

[Comatose]

I miss AGS

[[DRuG]KillFrenzy]

I miss AGS

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