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ByetzionHere are some pictures of the server upgrade. Old server: P2 300MHz, with 256MB RAM: Old server, in its old location New server: Xion 3GHz+HT+EMT64, with 1GB RAM. Nice: Dell PowerEdge 1800. Nice LEDs 🙂 The whole server room during the upgrade. Notice the 3com router/switch! You’ll be able to recognise it by its antenas…
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ByetzionWhen you own a data storage, one of your major considerations is how to backup your data. Several solutions exist to answer this question. When your data grows to a certain size, you encounter an additional issues – How to backup the data with minimum performance impact. It is quite obvious that backup devices has…
Proccess monitoring, Keepalive, etc
ByetzionMy new Linux server-to-be will require some remote monitoring and process keepalive going there. It’s that I’ve noticed nscd (which is required, when dealing with hundreds of LDAP based accounts) tends todie once a while. I’ve also made a mistake once, and managed to kill all SSH daemons, including the running ones. I am happy…
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ByetzionSuse, for some reason, has to be over-complicated. I don’t really know why, but the time required to perform simple tasks under Suse is longer than on any other Linux distro, and can be compared only to other legacy Unix systems I am familiar with. When it comes to a more complicated tasks, it gets…