02.08.2004
Sunday….aka the day after
Well, I finished up around 02:30 this morning having had some fun with a machine that decided it would corrupt one of the ext3 partitions (an oracle instance didn’t shutdown cleanly). Managed to get home an d crawl into bed by about 04:00 then went to a very nice lunch with some new arrivals from the UK. Much alcohol was drunk by myself (and a few others) so I was rather pleased when I didn’t have a hangover on Monday.
Monday was a NSW bank holiday which I luckily had off. I spent the day doing computer cleanups and house work. I setup a new 120gig raid1 array on my gateway for use as a backup for the whole LAN (making a raid array is very easy on debian - just apt-get install raidtools2 and away you go). It helps reading the LDP Raid howto but /etc/raiditab is easily reated by hand. So I now have a shiny new 120gig parition to start doing some real backups to. That parition will then be mirrored using rsync over to another machine to ensure having a hardware failure doesn’t cause that data to be lost.
Apparently is was a good day not to be at work I found in the evening - there were SAN problems so the oncall person did not have a fun night.
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