The Worst Concievable Disaster
Well, it has been awhile…
On February 25, at in indetermit time and after 331 days up, the faithful debian server went down. And went down hard.
It survived two consecutive weeks of threatend, building wide power outages and the idle hands of countless techs looking for scavenged parts. (No! Bad tech! *smack*) With just 35 days to go, a suite wide poweroutage is what finnaly took it down.
Dave had ordered some power upgrades to the suites we now have which were meant to come along with brief outages as they messed with the main breaker. The debian box was once again left alone on the UPS to weather the storm and while there were no garentees, it didn’t seem like there would be much of an issue. Needless to say, nothing goes as planned. The electricians nearly blew some things up, the UPS began to beep faster and I was told that there was an audible problem with my HD. I knew then, that if I lost power, it would not come back up alive.
Indead it didn’t. In fact, it wouldn’t even POST. Dejected, I let it sit, giving it a proper mouring.
Long story short, the system hard drive was clicky dead. However, due to the nature of scavenged parts for internal development, I had installed two smaller drives. One was the now dead system, but the other was a very happy data drive. As an added bonus, not only had my userdata survived, but so had my /etc partition. All of my precious conf files were intact.
So, even though my uptime hopes were crushed just shy of the year mark, I was able to quickly rebuild the box, push the data and conf files, test it all out and announce to the users that their blogs were back online with all of their entries.
Meanwhile, we are still having power issues and my uptime has be killed several times over. The promise of a new box brings uptime hopes back, however.