Oops
[Rooting around under a desk looking for a spare power socket to plug a desk lamp in.]
"What's that one? Ah, it's the fan heater isn't it? I'm not using that."
[Unplugs the fan heater]
Half a second later: "Why has the server cupboard gone quiet?"
Bad: I unplugged one of my office servers, the one that handles incoming email and web and various other external services.
Worse: The (admittedly rather old) system disk decided it'd had enough and refused to spin back up upon reapplying the power. Always a risk when you power down a machine that's been running constantly for years.
Annoying: I accidentally breathed in loads of dust when I pulled the disk caddies out (I'm allergic to dust).
Good: I appear to have a spare blank disk.
Better: All the data is safely stored on a separate RAID 5 file server that is still running fine.
Great: I also have a full nightly backup of the dead disk stored on the other server.
Fantastic: The disk that I thought was a spare blank was actually a RAID 1 mirror of the dead one. All I had to do was install Grub on it to get it to boot.
"What's that one? Ah, it's the fan heater isn't it? I'm not using that."
[Unplugs the fan heater]
Half a second later: "Why has the server cupboard gone quiet?"
Bad: I unplugged one of my office servers, the one that handles incoming email and web and various other external services.
Worse: The (admittedly rather old) system disk decided it'd had enough and refused to spin back up upon reapplying the power. Always a risk when you power down a machine that's been running constantly for years.
Annoying: I accidentally breathed in loads of dust when I pulled the disk caddies out (I'm allergic to dust).
Good: I appear to have a spare blank disk.
Better: All the data is safely stored on a separate RAID 5 file server that is still running fine.
Great: I also have a full nightly backup of the dead disk stored on the other server.
Fantastic: The disk that I thought was a spare blank was actually a RAID 1 mirror of the dead one. All I had to do was install Grub on it to get it to boot.
Glad you got it fixed.
I labelled the fuse boxes recently after we did the aforementioned rewiring (of course, the fuse we wanted was the last one we came to) and they ended up as "Lounge and hall light" "dining room and kitchen light" "cooker" "downstairs sockets" and "every bloody thing upstairs". Which is great - if we want to fix the bathroom light, we have to turn all the servers off too. Sigh.
I also noticed the sticker on the fuse box. It will have its 50th birthday next year. I'm thinking of having a party in its honour. Perhaps a wiring check would be more appropriate.
great news about the backups etc.