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Matthew in
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05 25th, 2008 |
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The Attack of the Clones
I’ve been having a lot of “fun” in the past few weeks with cloning a hard drive on a server. Let me tell you up front that I am a major penny pincher. You might remember my series on simple ways for the church to save money on operational expenditures. Some say that I’m cheap, but...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,...Posted by
Matthew in
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04 25th, 2008 |
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Server updates tomorrow
My mom used to say, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” So, for my post about ACS yesterday, I feel the need to say that I flippin’ love ACS. And now to the post… A couple of weeks ago, I replaced the hard drive in one of our servers....Hardware Woes
Over the weekend, I did some maintenance on one of our servers. There were a few discoveries, and I have to admit that I am disappointed in myself for not discovering these things until now. Over the past few weeks, I was hearing the tell-tale signs of a failing hard drive with the funny clicks and such....Posted by
Matthew in
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04 9th, 2008 |
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All kinds of things failing
I have never seen so many red X’s on an Event Viewer as I have recently on our main production server. Looks like I’m going to have some fun times ahead. I bet it’s a failing HDD. Right now, our main backup solution isn’t able to create a reliable image of the drive. We’re...
