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Posted by: Imhotep Jan 1 09, 19:23

Greetings.

Looking at the tracking numbers it appears that all the parts for the new server will be arriving over the next week and that I should be able to deploy and configure the system so that I can move the final bits of data over on Saturday, Jan 10 2009. This shouldn't take more than 1 hour to do and the work should start around 08:00 EST (13:00 GMT).

I'll update this thread as things progress. For those interested I'll also have a thread with pictures documenting the assembly and installation of the new server posted soon.

Posted by: Psyche Jan 1 09, 20:25

Thank you, Peter, for looking after everything at MM. It all sounds so very difficult and I'm very impressed. I've subscribed to this thread to view the pics of the assembly step by step, as you post them.

Wow...just wow!

Hope you have a good start to 2009, as well as Lori and all your family,
hugs,
Syl***

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jan 2 09, 07:13

For those who didn't get a chance to read Peter's original thread (as it was posted in a staff only forum on Dec 27 08 and moved today to this forum), here is the detail behind the new server deployment:
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Dec 27 08, 14:15
This is MM's 90,000th post

Guess I'll use it to let y'all know that the system monitoring tools have alerted me that one of the fans on the server's motherboard has failed and so needs to be replaced. Unfortunately, the motherboard we've now been running on since (as far as I can remember) late 04 early 05 is no longer made, and the new fans don't have the same size (won't clip on to this motherboard), and the only fans out there that will fit are refurbished (refurbished fans, that have the same bad service history of failing...) Luckily the computer right now is down in a cool area so the fan isn't really needed, but as we know, things running hotter than they should for longer than they should eventually do fail. I don't see it as being something that will fail in the next week or so but if it does I do have a temporary system I can use to bring things back up. So, for the time being I've set up an automated image program which copies the entire system to a backup every 12 hours (12:30 AM and 12:30 PM) so if the server does go offline the most data that could be lost is 12 hours worth.

On the bright side though, figuring it's a good excuse for building a new box and retiring this 5 year old one, I'm going to be building a new server over the next week or so (depending on how long it takes all the parts to show up). It's going to be a proper industrial-class server (rather than the retired desktop computer we had been using) with 8gigs of RAM, two CPUs, and two 300GB hard drives (set up as a RAID mirror again). If anyone's interested I'll post pictures of the assembly process. Once I've finished building and burning it in I'll set up a window to move the websites and databases over to the new box. Shouldn't take more than an hour at that point.

Take care!
I

Posted by: Imhotep Jan 11 09, 11:13

BTW, just to close the loop on this thread, we've finished the migration

Go http://forums.mosaicmusings.net/index.php?showtopic=12908 for details and pictures