The server is dead, long live the new server
Jul 20, 2003
The heat a few weeks ago was too much for my SS5/170, at least fornthe two Seagate drives. I was greeted on my return from visitingnfriends over the 4th of July weekend by I/O errors during my nightlyncron jobs. The drive containing the root slice showed intermittentnerrors. The data drive, which I had unmounted a couple of weeks beforen(I didn’t need the space anymore), was offline. Fortunately, I hadnmade backups a few days before. Other than the errors from thatnweekend, everything kept humming so I had time to plan thenreplacement.
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This afternoon I brought it down and discovered that my intendednspare was no good. After some appropriate profanity, I committed thendisks to the trash and looked around for another Sparc. My U60, whichnI had been using to play with Solaris and NetBSD- it’s great compilingnthings on such a fast machine- was otherwise idle so I moved it fromnmy desk to the rack and whipped out the OpenBSD CDs. An hour later Inhad it up and running with all the old content restored.
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It’s massive overkill for hosting this static vanity site. One nicenthing is that it’s blissfully quiet compared to the wailing of thenSS5. I have to scrounge up another disk drive for the SPARCstation andnbring that back up to resume it’s duties. Probably after I get backnfrom vacation.