As mentioned in my last post, I needed to finish up a few things before shipping my server. Well, I thought everything was a go up until Thursday evening when I started messing with my backup script. After a couple test passes my server locked up! (Oh $hit!!!) It was about 9:30PM when this happened. Cnosidering I was already tired and had a full day or work the next day I didn’t know what to do. I could have pushed it back ‘another’ week but opted to go ahead and swap-out my workstation hardware for my server case and RAID controller/drives. Needless to say I stayed up until 2:30 in the morning getting all the parts swapped over and installing the OS. Before going to bed, I started downloading updates. I woke up around 6:20AM and finished installing the updates. I headed off to work like normal and came back home during lunch to work on getting the IP addresses setup. (Glade I’m within walking distance of work.) The lack of sleep did start to catch-up with me by the afternoon hours but it was nothing a MountainDew couldn’t fix. hehe
My server has been shipped, so it should arrive on Wednesday. I think I’m going to put it through about a week or so of testing before moving everything back over to it. Hopefully everything goes smoothly. I’m still a bit freaked about sending hardware out that really hasn’t been tested as a production server but it ‘should’ be fine. When I build my workstation way back when, the hardware was chosen for its reliability not performance value, it has a decent Intel board with a P4 3.2Ghz CPU with hyper-threading. For memory I chose a 512 stick of Crucial PC3200, at the time that was above standard.
