Another day... another day with migraine.

Another day with a migraine. And to think that I have several items still on my plate.

I was supposed to have the three Linux servers on RAID 1. However, the easiest way to do this would be to install the RAID hardware first, and then install the OS. That is not the case here. Thought there was foresight in buying the necessary RAID controller cards. We were able to do the first one successfully. The data was backed up, the RAID controllers were installed and the OS was reinstalled. After several hours of updating files from the internet, the development software was loaded and then the back up data restored.

Now that we've done that to a (relatively) empty server, we now have to take care of two other servers, which are being used by the developers.

Again, we tried to schedule this for this evening, but I doubt I can do that with this migraine. We've deferred to next week.

This should be fun. One of the guys here has an idea. We plug in the RAID controller, connect the hard disks, power the system, duplicate (mirror) the disks and insert the Linux installation disks. But instead of installing, we repair the partitions. Since there was no partition before, and now we have a partition, this should solve the problem. After rebooting the server, the RAID should have been detected properly and the server is up without knowing it has been mirrored. In theory this should work.

If the above does not work, we do have the back-up and we just do a fresh install. Nothing to it. After the re-install, the software updates, then we install all the other software, and we restore the backups. No real difference, actually.

Hope that works.

--andoy
21 April 2005