Server Upgrade: Up and Running

The new server is now handling web, time, DNS and email (including an IMAP setup I've never had before). I've got the third drive installed, so I just need to finish copying everything off and then format it and add it into the volume.

It's way past my bedtime.

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Server Upgrade: newbit up

So first I fought the hardware, spending way too much time in the BIOS before discovering that one of my sticks of RAM is bad (or at least the BIOS won't post with it, but will with the other two).

Then I fought the debian installer as I tried to create RAID and lvm.

Finally, though, everything's working there:

eric@newbit:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/group1-main
                      114G  598M  113G   1% /
tmpfs                 253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0              1.8G   39M  1.7G   3% /boot
tmpfs                 253M  116K  253M   1% /dev

The 114G partition looks weird, but it'll make a lot more sense once I'm able to put the third drive in. I want to do RAID-1 on three 250gig drives to get 375gig usable space, and that requires a pretty fancy game to get up when you first need to copy data off one of the drives before you can use it.

Now to actually install software.

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Server Upgrade: Step One Complete

This blog and blogdowntown are now running off my laptop. I'm copying a bit of leftover content off my desktop, then I'll be yanking the 250gig drive out of it.

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Counting Drives

In my drive calculations in the last post I forgot about my third 250gig drive in saying where different bits would end up. That got me to thinking: how much drive space is sitting around my apartment?

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Server Musical Chairs

I'm planning on moving servers this evening, so if something seems funky you can likely blame that. This is a bit of an intricate move even though nothing's leaving my apartment, but in the end it'll greatly simplify the way I host this stuff. In the end, though, it's not as ugly as the configuration I once used to serve this site (October 2004).

Basically right now I've got an ancient PIII 500 up in the ceiling as a server. It's slow on the dynamic stuff, so all blog URLs are proxied through to my faster desktop (err... is it a desktop is it's actually supporting the desk?). The server in the ceiling also does NAT for the apartment network and acts as internal media server.

Now I've got some new guts to replace the server in the ceiling. Doing so with minimal downtime looks to involve a musical chairs of four distinct machines.

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