- Friday November 10th, 2006
It all started so innocously. A single email from smartctl telling me about a bad sector. Then after a reboot two emails. Then slowly more and more bad sectors. Then kaputo. A SpamAssassin Bayes database dies on me because it is on a bad sector. And I sense it’s the beginning of the end. I do backups but I figure it’s just a matter of time before the drive totally karks it. So I decided to finally do a proper setup with some actual disk redundancy. So I used my royalty check (yes I actually got one) to buy a new box. I am getting an AMD 64-bit Dual Core CPU with plenty of RAM and dual SATA drives. I am going to do a clean Fedora Core 6 installation and mirror the SATA drives using RAID 1. That should hopefully save me the unpleasantness of this experience again. Will probably do a proper backup solution at the same time rather the bodgy scripted solution I use now. P.S. R has indicated that 7 computers (plus the MCE box and the Powerbook and a work laptop) is a little too much. I think she’s right. So I am going to Ebay the old Linux box (minus HDD) and maybe both Dell boxes. I’ll probably keep the Sparcstations though.
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