Server maintenance is coming!

[iago]

I'm running low on harddrive space on both my database server and Web server.

It's pretty trivial to fix, but it means I'm going to take them offline for maybe an hour, probably sometime this weekend.

Just a heads up.

[iago]

Fixed and fixed. Took like 10 mins total.. way quicker than I figured. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[Camel]

My harddrives tend to go bad before they get full. Consider yourself lucky!

[iago]

Well, it's virtual hardware. I just created new drives and mounted the appropriate data directories on the new drive. Simple.

[Camel]

It it xen, or an application-level VM? I was reading about xen the other day - cool stuff.

[deadly7]

My harddrives tend to go bad before they get full. Consider yourself lucky!

I have yet to have a harddrive fail on me that I didn't do something malicious to. Taking care of your parts really isn't that difficult.

[iago]

It it xen, or an application-level VM? I was reading about xen the other day - cool stuff.

Full-system VM -- specifically, VMWare Server edition. I'd like to learn Xen, but we use VMWare at work so I'm used to it, and I've gotten accustomed to VMWare Server's stupid little quirks.

[MyndFyre]

My harddrives tend to go bad before they get full. Consider yourself lucky!

I have yet to have a harddrive fail on me that I didn't do something malicious to. Taking care of your parts really isn't that difficult.

TWSS

[Camel]

I have yet to have a harddrive fail on me that I didn't do something malicious to. Taking care of your parts really isn't that difficult.

Harddrives have moving parts, and the ferrous material doesn't last forever. I've yet to have a harddrive fail before I moved its data to a fresh drive, but I've had many (at least 5) harddrives that I've owned long enough for them to die of normal wear. These days, I generally only buy WD Black drives, which come with a 5 year warranty, so I imagine those ones will last much longer.

I'd like to learn Xen, but we use VMWare at work so I'm used to it, and I've gotten accustomed to VMWare Server's stupid little quirks.

I'm using Virtual Box at home because it was free (read: easier to download) and does what I need. If I had the time to screw around with it, and another machine to play around with, I would love to learn Xen. Right now, my 3 machines all have their own purpose - my Linux box has to have 98% uptime, or I'll lose money, so that one's out. My main machine is for gaming, which I'm not willing to sacrifice. I could do it on my Mac, but the harddrive is so slow that backing up takes forever, so I just don't feel like doing it.

[iago]

I'd like to learn Xen, but we use VMWare at work so I'm used to it, and I've gotten accustomed to VMWare Server's stupid little quirks.

I'm using Virtual Box at home because it was free (read: easier to download) and does what I need. If I had the time to screw around with it, and another machine to play around with, I would love to learn Xen. Right now, my 3 machines all have their own purpose - my Linux box has to have 98% uptime, or I'll lose money, so that one's out. My main machine is for gaming, which I'm not willing to sacrifice. I could do it on my Mac, but the harddrive is so slow that backing up takes forever, so I just don't feel like doing it.

VMWare server is free free, which is nice.

[Camel]

Oh, neat. I'll have to check that out the next time I need to download one of those.

[deadly7]

Harddrives have moving parts, and the ferrous material doesn't last forever. I've yet to have a harddrive fail before I moved its data to a fresh drive, but I've had many (at least 5) harddrives that I've owned long enough for them to die of normal wear. These days, I generally only buy WD Black drives, which come with a 5 year warranty, so I imagine those ones will last much longer.

I have owned numerous drives in my years. Even leaving computesr up 24/7 running computations/rendering/downloading/etc, my desktop (almost hitting the 10 year mark now) has yet to have a single HD fail. Keep them well cooled, keep them properly defraged (when on Windows), and physically clean them and they'll last. Maybe new hard drives they make now just suck, though. Companies have definitely started skimping and fail at having good quality.

[MyndFyre]

I don't know what people's obsession with defragging is - Windows will do it automatically.  I haven't defragged a hard drive since WinXP.

NTFS is a pretty low-maintenance file system.

[deadly7]

I don't know what people's obsession with defragging is - Windows will do it automatically.  I haven't defragged a hard drive since WinXP.

NTFS is a pretty low-maintenance file system.

Windows might have tasks scheduled that do it automatically, but you still have to run the actual process of reorganizing the files on the drive.

[rabbit]

Backup what you need and reformat every 8 months.  It's worked for me.