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Sep. 3rd, 2007 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI played DDR for an hour today; it's been way too long since I've done that. I worry a little bit that I'll lose muscle mass if I keep losing weight and not doing much exercise, so I need to do more of that.
Anyway, I broke down and stacked empty cardboard boxes on the porch, cleaned and vacuumed the living room, then started on the server. The first thing I did was take the vacuum with the brush attachment to the guts. Wow! The dust bunnies were breeding.
I took out the 1Ghz PIII Xeon and replaced it with dual 866 Xeons plus a VRM I scavenged from a dual PIII non-Xeon machine. Trying to power it on resulted in a high-pitched electronic whine and then nothing. Guess that's not going to work; I'll have to get a real Xeon VRM. At least it doesn't seem to have caused any damage. Went back to the single 1Ghz processor and it booted again. Then I swapped out the Travan drive (as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
posicat always notes, it's not a good idea to trust your backed up data to media that requires a giant heatsink strapped to its ass) with one of the 20/40GB DAT (DDS-4)drives that have been sitting on top of it for months waiting for me to get around to them. I just started up Windows backup and told it to archive the whole external e-SATA drive. Now, I have very little experience (read none) with actually scheduling backup jobs for tape media. I have no idea whether it's normal for my server to have been sitting here for about fifteen minutes now saying that the library is loading the media. Maybe it's rewinding it? It is a used tape. *shrugs* We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'll install that copy of Symantec Backup Exec I got from a friend at work and actually start doing real backups. If I attach some of the external SCSI bays I scavenged from scrapped servers at work (they're the metal cages with a hot-swap backplane that Compaq Proliants have in them) to the server somehow, I'd even have room to backup the other computers on the network. I could do something like back up all the other computers in the house to diskspace on the server in case any of them go down, then backup the other data on the server to tape in case that goes down. That would be cool.
I hope people are having fun at faire today.
Anyway, I broke down and stacked empty cardboard boxes on the porch, cleaned and vacuumed the living room, then started on the server. The first thing I did was take the vacuum with the brush attachment to the guts. Wow! The dust bunnies were breeding.
I took out the 1Ghz PIII Xeon and replaced it with dual 866 Xeons plus a VRM I scavenged from a dual PIII non-Xeon machine. Trying to power it on resulted in a high-pitched electronic whine and then nothing. Guess that's not going to work; I'll have to get a real Xeon VRM. At least it doesn't seem to have caused any damage. Went back to the single 1Ghz processor and it booted again. Then I swapped out the Travan drive (as
posicat always notes, it's not a good idea to trust your backed up data to media that requires a giant heatsink strapped to its ass) with one of the 20/40GB DAT (DDS-4)drives that have been sitting on top of it for months waiting for me to get around to them. I just started up Windows backup and told it to archive the whole external e-SATA drive. Now, I have very little experience (read none) with actually scheduling backup jobs for tape media. I have no idea whether it's normal for my server to have been sitting here for about fifteen minutes now saying that the library is loading the media. Maybe it's rewinding it? It is a used tape. *shrugs* We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'll install that copy of Symantec Backup Exec I got from a friend at work and actually start doing real backups. If I attach some of the external SCSI bays I scavenged from scrapped servers at work (they're the metal cages with a hot-swap backplane that Compaq Proliants have in them) to the server somehow, I'd even have room to backup the other computers on the network. I could do something like back up all the other computers in the house to diskspace on the server in case any of them go down, then backup the other data on the server to tape in case that goes down. That would be cool.I hope people are having fun at faire today.
