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Jan 8, 2006 - Brand new installation coming

I just bought 2 new firewire 7200 rpm drives, one for the server and one as a backup. When they arrive tomorrow I'm going to do a clean fresh install from scratch (shudder) of the entire web site, and keep a running backup. I've been using these Notebook drives and they just seem to fail too often.

Jan 7, 2006 - Mail limping along

Thanks to my Favorite Person In The World™ Bradley, my mail box has been resurrected. I am now getting mail again directly from my server. That same day my friend Nik helped fixed the bug reporter. Since the 4th i have not been able to get bug reports due to the failure of my mailbox. Now both problems have been resolved.

Jan 4, 2006 - Catastrophic Server Failure

I had the server's HD go bad on me tonight. Just wouldn't boot. I rebooted from the 10.4 Server Installer CD and it said "this disk is reporting hardware failue" and it refused to work with it. Dam. So I pulled it out and plugged it into my WiebeTech Notebook DriveDock, and was able to mount it, so I CarbonCopyClone'd it to another drive, and that's what's running now. But the wiki broke complaining about some SQL files needing to be restored from a backup, luckily there were some sitting right there, so I put them in and it seems to work. Not so fast with my mail authentication. I don't know what to do there so for now i'm forwarding to another account. It may be a few days before I can get back to real work here.