The Blog of Rudy Amid

Wow, I couldn’t believe I had to rebuild my Linux server, yet again after 2+ years of operation.  I always suspected the old 80Gb Maxtor drive to be flawed, but not this serious.  I procastinated in fixing it and too laxed on the backup.  Well, last week thursday, after a city-wide power failure, my drive got corrupted.  I was able to recover some of my critical files, such as mail and some Perl scripts.  I had saved previous WordPress DB files offsite manually every 10-15 days.   I had to go to Fry’s to get (and paid a lot) for new SATA hard drive and a PCI controller for it.  I then proceeded installing Fedora Core 7, just released a week before, and recompiled and reconfig’ed the stuff that I needed.  I’m able to get most of them working as of this blog entry.

Hopefully this will buy me another 2+ years of operation.  Strangely enough, I feel pretty good in the new/fresh installation process and results — even though the process was tedious and frustrating at times.  I guess I get the satisfaction in solving problems: the only reason why I will always be a sysadmin!

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