What Are You Doing Right Now
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Linux Academy time before the new year
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@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Rebuilding RAID array after a failed drive occurred today. First one I've encountered in a few years. Timely. Thankfully RAID 10 and moving quickly.
After replacing the drive, I was getting messages showing that the firmware was one behind the rest of the drives, therefore I decided what the heck, might as well update the server firmware while I'm here. Wrong decision. Firmware upgrades got stuck on the RAID card, and now my server will not boot. I went from a simple drive swap to ultimate panic mode. So far I've recovered one critical VM to an older spare server we have and everything is running fine with it. Now I'm recovering our file server.
I just bought Veeam 2 months ago after our Backup Exec crapped out. If it comes through and saves me here, I might literally be the happiest man on the planet.
Server also went out of service life last year. Called Cisco and they said they couldn't do anything for me. Was already planning on getting two new servers in the next few months to replace the two I have, but it seems that will be expedited now.
Still need prayers file server successfully restores and everything goes smoothly
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@zachary715 good luck mate!
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Good morning and Happy New Year to everyone.
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@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
After replacing the drive, I was getting messages showing that the firmware was one behind the rest of the drives, therefore I decided what the heck, might as well update the server firmware while I'm here. Wrong decision. Firmware upgrades got stuck on the RAID card, and now my server will not boot. I went from a simple drive swap to ultimate panic mode. So far I've recovered one critical VM to an older spare server we have and everything is running fine with it. Now I'm recovering our file server.
Server also went out of service life last year. Called Cisco and they said they couldn't do anything for me.
So the real lessons to take away from this experience...
- Never operate a server out of service.
- Updates from Cisco are not reliable.
- Be wary of Cisco for networking, stay the hell away from it for servers. Total garbage.
- Cisco offers zero support when you are out of service.
- Firmware updates when out of service are extremely risky, especially with Cisco.
It's the combination of things here... having Cisco, letting support lapse, doing firmware after that time... that led to issues. Change any one of those factors, and you'd probably be okay.
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@scottalanmiller I have a SMB client running a pair of Dell servers from like 2010. Because everything is virtualized and replicated and backed up, Iām not planning to replace anything until one of them fails or can no longer handle the workload.
The guests are Fedora 29 systems, server 2012R2 and server 2016.
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My dad is doing a Fedora install at home on his own right now.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller I have a SMB client running a pair of Dell servers from like 2010. Because everything is virtualized and replicated and backed up, Iām not planning to replace anything until one of them fails or can no longer handle the workload.
The guests are Fedora 29 systems, server 2012R2 and server 2016.
This is pretty much how we have been, except we did plan to upgrade these before failure (hopefully). This has just been my first big encounter with something like this so it freaked me out a bit. Starting to look like everything will restore from backups though and all will be well, which is pretty much exactly how we structured it.
I've learned though it's one thing to put a plan together that sounds good, and it's another to have to execute it.
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Zimbra OSE Links without forms
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Things are pretty chill here today.
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Choosing Linux training over Project 1999 (Everquest)
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Things are pretty chill here today.
I am trying to recover from recovering Zimbra.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Things are pretty chill here today.
I am trying to recover from recovering Zimbra.
LOL
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Post coming up about upgrading Zimbra from Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.04. Thanks to XOA and XCP-ng I don't have that many headaches as backup and restores worked perfectly.
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Learning how to manage network interfaces using
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Migrating a medium sized WordPress site to a new server. I don't like WP
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@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Migrating a medium sized WordPress site to a new server. I don't like WP
Why, what issues is it giving you?
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@scottalanmiller
No issues, just a normal migration. Its the platform that I don't like:- Patches/Upgrades can break the sites
- It is a blog platform morphed to a CMS
- URLs in the database
- More I don't want to remember
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Catching up on work E-mail.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Catching up on work E-mail.
Ugh... Don't remind me. I was AFK for 3 weeks... Came back to 600 something emails. /cry
