My love-hate relationship with Caleb

Caleb is one of our servers (and just for added clarification - server in this instance means a computer, not a waiter).  Sometimes I love Caleb.  He works hard and fast.  He typically does everything that I ask of him.  He’s a super-server in so many situations.  But, like any toddler, sometimes he throws temper tantrums.  This week he started routing users’ e-mails into never never land, and if you put your ear up to his hard drive, you could almost hear him laughing.

I have to choose my punishments wisely for Caleb, since punishing him also punishes all my users.  I typically don’t put him in time-out, though I’d like to.  I do, however, verbally threaten him.  I’ll say things to him like, “You better act right mister, or I’m installing Linux on you,” or “I’m going to block your favorite sites.”  These threats usually don’t work too well for him.

In this last string of issues with Caleb, namely the development of bad sectors on his drive, I’ve found the need to clone his disk and move on.  Apparently he’s rather attached to this drive and doesn’t want a new one because every time I try to clone it, the process fails.  So, I’ve used every tool that I know of to fix the bad sectors to let the cloning commence, and I’m at a dead end right now.  I’ve used chkdsk, Seagate tools, and today I even purchased Spin Rite for the job.  All to no avail.

So, if anyone has good punishment ideas for Caleb, please let me know.  Or, if you know how to get drives with bad sectors cloned, that’d be good to know too.

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2 Responses to “My love-hate relationship with Caleb”

  1. kuanglien Says:
    May 28th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    I know that DriveClone Server works really well for disk imaging cloning for disaster recovery. Plus it has Universal Restore for just in case to restore entire hard drive on another drive regardless if it’s different hard drive format, size, brand, or operating system

    here’s the download link i found: http://www.farstone.us/download/driveclone-server/DCServer-5.0.exe
    and more info: http://www.farstone.com/software/driveclone-server.htm

    HOPE this helps! :)

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