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Farewell to old OOF server
« on: 02 January 2009, 09:54:14 »
Its going to be powered down at 10am today - I just hope I have removed all dependencies from it ;D

Its been a good workhorse for the last 18months, and has done a grand job in my eyes, but it was time to move away from that, albeit fairly fast, RAID0 disk setup :o

On the upside, it will live on as my desktop :D
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #1 on: 02 January 2009, 10:35:46 »
how many disks did you use in the RAID 0?
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #2 on: 02 January 2009, 11:17:42 »
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how many disks did you use in the RAID 0?
Only 2...   ....remember, I am trying to keep my leccy bill below 3 figures!

The replacement servers only has 2 disks as well currently, this time larger disks, and mirrored.
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #3 on: 02 January 2009, 11:56:22 »
'Ere, wot's going on?

I was reading this topic at 10:54 and the site  just seemed to die.

Just like my car yesterday...

Both seem to have come back without my intervention, though. :) :)
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #4 on: 02 January 2009, 12:11:12 »
All seems good though... Well done Jamie :y :y :y
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #5 on: 02 January 2009, 12:31:52 »
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'Ere, wot's going on?

I was reading this topic at 10:54 and the site  just seemed to die.

Just like my car yesterday...

Both seem to have come back without my intervention, though. :) :)
Shouldn't have glitched then :o
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #6 on: 02 January 2009, 12:34:49 »
All seems very fast. Thank you & nice one TB :y :y
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #7 on: 02 January 2009, 12:35:23 »
Apart from a VPN problem here - which won't affect OOF in any way - looks like no ill effects from switching off old server, so I'll start ripping out the tape drive ready to put in new server.

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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #8 on: 02 January 2009, 12:54:56 »
Nice one TB :y
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #9 on: 02 January 2009, 12:58:38 »
RIP to the old server, but this morning the site is working a lot faster for me!! :y :y :y

Thanks TB for all that you and the other Admins do!! 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #10 on: 02 January 2009, 13:45:00 »
aye its much quicker actually!
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #11 on: 02 January 2009, 13:55:07 »
Nice one TB, and thanks for providing the site, long may it continue  :y

On a tech note, I read somewhere that they don't recomend RAID for home users like me, cause if one disc screws up the whole thing is likely to bomb with total loss of data, and its a lot harder to fix. I was OK using Norton to fix HD problems back in the dim and distant past, but wouldn't fancy trying it now. Searching thro HD sectors for a letter on a 20M hard drive is one thing, on a 500G would take considerably longer !.

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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #12 on: 02 January 2009, 13:59:59 »
good work, Admin types are always unsung heros  :y
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Re: Farewell to old OOF server
« Reply #13 on: 02 January 2009, 14:38:32 »
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Nice one TB, and thanks for providing the site, long may it continue  :y

On a tech note, I read somewhere that they don't recomend RAID for home users like me, cause if one disc screws up the whole thing is likely to bomb with total loss of data, and its a lot harder to fix. I was OK using Norton to fix HD problems back in the dim and distant past, but wouldn't fancy trying it now. Searching thro HD sectors for a letter on a 20M hard drive is one thing, on a 500G would take considerably longer !.

Ken
Any hardware RAID will use some kind of proprietry disk layout, so needs same controller to be able to repair, and then standard tools to recover should corruption occur (unlikely to be due to raid controller)

Software RAID just sucks, and fortunately is not used much outside of test labs on Windows.  It does tend to be used a fair bit under Solaris, and it can be a right bitch to recover, but the tools are reasonable.

Then you have the bastardised hybrids like the southbridge implementations on upmarket desktop/budget server mobos, which again have tools to recover from disk failure (assuming using fault tolerant disk setup), and then standard tools to recover corruption if necessary.
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