Geek-O-Rama
Well, like I said earlier, the PS in my staging server died on October 31. This was the box on which I did all my web development, and which also did nightly backups of the database backends for Good Eating in the Twin Cities and Cat-Tharsis. Then, on Thursday night, my database disappears from my ISP's servers. Well, that pretty much kills Good-Eating, whose content is all database driven. It also meant a little down-time for Cat-Tharsis until I could comment out the visitor logging code.
So now, how was I going to restore the data from my dead server to the ISP? I took the same power supply I ripped a fan out of for the art-box last week, and used it to bring up the server long enough to migrate the critical files to my art-box. I then restored the databases from the week-old backups rescued from the staging server, and shot of a snarky e-mail to the ISP.
So now, how was I going to restore the data from my dead server to the ISP? I took the same power supply I ripped a fan out of for the art-box last week, and used it to bring up the server long enough to migrate the critical files to my art-box. I then restored the databases from the week-old backups rescued from the staging server, and shot of a snarky e-mail to the ISP.