Lorien Update: Copying Your Data

All right, folks. The hard drive containing your e-mail, web sites, and so on came out of everything is intact. That's the important thing, that's from the "breathe; ok, now, keep breathing..." department.

The "aieeeeeeee" class news is that, right now, as I am copying the data, the source drive pauses every once in awhile.

When it pauses, it makes clicking noises.

Hear that? That's all the geeks on my flist groaning. If you watch, they are also making back-luck-aversion and o-god-i-can't-look gestures.

It's the sound of incipient complete hard drive failure, with the likelihood of complete failure increasing every time the hard drive is powered off and on.

Or, well, probably every time it clicks, too. The clicky hard drive? Not your friend. At all.

Happily the data is still copying over, and happily most critical stuff has been backed up on my friend Eric's machine. Joyously, the copying appears to be going well...except for the stalling.

Weird-Ass Woo Department: The "lorien" wight has already been moved to the new chassis, and the network stang will get real blood this time so it doesn't suck my UPS dry. Again.

Yeah. Any y'all feel so inclined, light a candle for my boy lorien, would you? we'll get through the night, but every little bit and all that.

Once the target drive is re-ensconced, we can work on reconfiguration. I don't know if it'll be able to go online tonight or not. We'll see.

-- Lorrie


-- Lorrie (click-cluck, click, click, click-clonk...)

Just Found Out...Mail's Not Being Queued

Apparently, my backup mail exchanger is not queueing up e-mails for my domains like it's supposed to.

That means that instead of mail being held on the other server until I come online and can catch it, it's all bounding.

...I fail. I fail so bad.

However, I should reiterate that all your old stuff is fine; the failure of new stuff to properly accumulate is the fault of another guy who I should not have trusted for this long; he's let me down before, but I tend to trust past reason and out to fault.

I was in the middle of doing the restore, and asked countgeiger to help move the system configuration files to a place where we could go through them carefully and incorporate the old customizations into the current state of the art... and he was playing WoW while he heard me, and WoW while he did it, and has had a crazy week at work, so he ran right over the real configuration files instead, rendering the system an immediate and unusable mess.

Which meant I had to start the entire rebuild from scratch.

He's sorry.

That's nice.

I'm the one up until three-thirty.

When I nearly had a barebones system up to where I could customize it, I made a wrong choice, and made the system unbootable again. Easier to start yet another rebuild than chase the module loading error through the backwoods.

Things will work as soon as I can make them so; knowing now that mail isn't being properly queued on my backup mail exchanger has hit me quite hard on top of the rest of the evening's setbacks. I shall start dropping other committments, in light of this, so that things may be brought back online as soon as possible, and that, in turn, you can all move your e-mail someplace more reliable; not that I'm turning anything off, but I'm clearly not to be trusted.

Well.

At least it was nice to visit the Sea.

-- Lorrie