[SFS] Server Status
Dan Kulinski
daniel@kulinski.net
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:22:01 -0600
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Failure is one of the best teachers. I am also moving the way cfedde is
and moving more into public repositories and provisioning with ansible. I
also have a VPS that backups personal documents although this is a simple
rsync and I would like to expand it to backup my wife's windows laptop.
Since we are on the topic of backups, if people on this list have Windows
machines, how do they handle backups?
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:06 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson@thegeek.nu>
wrote:
> Yeah. I screwed this up at least 3 ways.
>
> - no regular backups
> - no RAID
> - poor problem diagnosis and diagnosis
>
> I'm always grateful when I find a place that's willing to hire and keep a
> special fellow like me.
>
> --
> David L. Willson
> Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
> COA LFCS CCAH RHCE CLP
> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> http://sofree.us
>
> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Backups are such a pain until you need them. I'm still running a dump to
> a usb drive "occasionally" but for the most part the stuff I care about is
> somewhere in the cloud: VPS, Gitlab, Google Drive. I suppose I land on a
> different part of the Venn diagram that has reliability in one circle and
> security in another.
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:51 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson@thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
>
>> I lost a hard drive yesterday. I was able to restore from a backup, but
>> the backup was three weeks old.
>>
>> Affected systems are:
>> - zimbra.thegeek.nu
>> - zimbra.sofree.us
>> - mailman.thegeek.nu
>> - fishes.sofree.us
>>
>> My plan is to configure daily backups today.
>>
>> There's a funny story here about a failing hard drive locking up the
>> system that I had *just* setup backups on, and me diagnosing it as a
>> problem with the backup script, and disabling the backups "until I can
>> re-arrange things", which turned out to be three weeks later, when the hard
>> drive stopped working completely. Lesson: Take the backups. If the system
>> locks up during or near backups, take the backups manually and often.
>>
>> --
>> David L. Willson
>> Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
>> COA LFCS CCAH RHCE CLP
>> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
>> http://sofree.us
>>
>> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>>
>>
>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Failure is one of the best teachers.=C2=A0 I am also movin=
g the way cfedde is and moving more into public repositories and provisioni=
ng with ansible.=C2=A0 I also have a VPS that backups personal documents al=
though this is a simple rsync and I would like to expand it to backup my wi=
fe's windows laptop.=C2=A0 Since we are on the topic of backups, if peo=
ple on this list have Windows machines, how do they handle backups?</div><d=
iv class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 19, 201=
7 at 3:06 PM, David L. Willson <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:DLWi=
llson@thegeek.nu" target=3D"_blank">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>></span> wro=
te:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-=
left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style=3D"font-family:times =
new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Yeah. I screwe=
d this up at least 3 ways.<br><br>- no regular backups<br>- no RAID<br>- po=
or problem diagnosis and diagnosis<br><br>I'm always grateful when I fi=
nd a place that's willing to hire and keep a special fellow like me.<sp=
an class=3D""><br><br><div><span name=3D"x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<b=
r>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>COA LFCS CCAH RHCE CLP<br>Mobile 720-333=
-LANS(5267)<br><a href=3D"http://sofree.us" target=3D"_blank">http://sofree=
.us</a><br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name=3D"x"></span=
><br></div><br></span><hr id=3D"m_-6859567967602109894zwchr"><div><div clas=
s=3D"h5"><blockquote style=3D"border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px=
;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-deco=
ration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir=
=3D"ltr">Backups are such a pain until you need them.=C2=A0 I'm still r=
unning a dump to a usb drive "occasionally" but for the most part=
the stuff I care about is somewhere in the cloud: =C2=A0VPS, =C2=A0Gitlab,=
Google Drive.=C2=A0 I suppose I land on a different part of the Venn diagr=
am that has reliability in one circle and security in another. =C2=A0</div>=
<div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 18, 2=
017 at 2:51 AM, David L. Willson <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:DL=
Willson@thegeek.nu" target=3D"_blank">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>></span> w=
rote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;borde=
r-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style=3D"font-family:time=
s new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">I lost a har=
d drive yesterday. I was able to restore from a backup, but the backup was =
three weeks old.<br><br>Affected systems are:<br>- <a href=3D"http://zimbra=
.thegeek.nu" target=3D"_blank">zimbra.thegeek.nu</a><br>- <a href=3D"http:/=
/zimbra.sofree.us" target=3D"_blank">zimbra.sofree.us</a><br>- <a href=3D"h=
ttp://mailman.thegeek.nu" target=3D"_blank">mailman.thegeek.nu</a><br>- <a =
href=3D"http://fishes.sofree.us" target=3D"_blank">fishes.sofree.us</a><br>=
<br>My plan is to configure daily backups today.<br><br>There's a funny=
story here about a failing hard drive locking up the system that I had *ju=
st* setup backups on, and me diagnosing it as a problem with the backup scr=
ipt, and disabling the backups "until I can re-arrange things", w=
hich turned out to be three weeks later, when the hard drive stopped workin=
g completely. Lesson: Take the backups. If the system locks up during or ne=
ar backups, take the backups manually and often.<br><br><div><span></span>-=
-<br>David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>COA LFCS CCAH RHC=
E CLP<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br><a href=3D"http://sofree.us" target=
=3D"_blank">http://sofree.us</a><br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLutio=
n.<span></span><br></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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