[snailman153624]

Well, my trusty file server which hasn't been rebooted in over 4 years (save for one or two power outages, or when I moved) finally had a hard drive failure last weekend. It was the only drive that was NOT on a RAID, and due to my bone-headed fstab configuration, wouldn't boot without some changes.

I was able to recover MOST of the files from backups to a different [physical] drive in the server, but that drive was almost full so I couldn't fit everything.

I figure since I'm going to have to reconfigure the RAID anyway that I'm going to go ahead and upgrade Linux to the latest release as well. As a result, the server and/or some services may be unavailable for a few weeks as I do this in my spare time.

This site should be just fine, but any files you uploaded to my server may be unavailable, and emails to my admin account may get bounced back.

Thanks!


PS - If anyone has a spare 20+ GB hard drive that's not too used up they want to donate, I'll gladly take it! It would be great to have enough drives to have total redundancy for hardware failures and not lose any data...