{"id":87614176,"date":"2007-06-08T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614176"},"modified":"2007-06-09T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T17:38:49","slug":"and-were-baaaaaack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614176","title":{"rendered":"And we&#8217;re baaAAaack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after the main drive on our server decided to pack it in after only six years of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>running on a sad little Pentium III 733<\/li>\n<li>Windows 2000 server (and IIS, &#8217;cause they said it couldn&#8217;t be DONE)<\/li>\n<li>not enough air flow<\/li>\n<li>multiple power surges and outages<\/li>\n<li>three different low-profile power supplies<\/li>\n<li>a warm day combined with the door on the cabinet sealing shut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the drive made this <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/explosion.jpg\" \/> horrific clicking noise when attempting to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Now thanks to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some SERIOUS drive recovery karma (I think I&#8217;m around 95% on over 100 drives in my carreer: freaky, huh?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/arwen\/blog\">Arwen<\/a>&#8216;s CompSci degree<\/li>\n<li>blind faith to KEEP TRYING even after you&#8217;ve already consciously accepted that everything&#8217;s gone<\/li>\n<li>backups I started on a daily\/weekly\/&#8221;otherdrivetarget&#8221; back in February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>72hrs later, we&#8217;re back up.  New hardware, new server OS, new everything.  NEW.<\/p>\n<p>Same ol&#8217; data though, which is the new sweetness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/arwen\/blog\">Arwen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/liz\">Monkeypants<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/pomodoro\">Pomodoro <\/a>and I are all <em><strong>back<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, &#8220;<strong>Temple<\/strong>&#8221; is in ruins, and &#8220;<strong>Blackhole<\/strong>&#8221; is here to stay, we hope.<\/p>\n<p>Email\/comment (if you can) if there&#8217;s any weirdness.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Email&#8217;s not *quite* back up just yet, so Monkey and Pomo are not emailable at this domain for the next little bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after the main drive on our server decided to pack it in after only six years of: running on a sad little Pentium III 733 Windows 2000 server (and IIS, &#8217;cause they said it couldn&#8217;t be DONE) not enough air flow multiple power surges and outages three different low-profile power supplies a warm day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}