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sick at home so what do you do?

Well I upgraded my server :p

It all started yesterday by pulling out my old cheapy system (value asus barebone) and checking if i could use it for something and apparently i could!
So I bought a new ethernet card (gigabit) and a new slow but big harddrive (samsung ecosomething 1.5TB) for €100,- and went back to bed; ye it was that hard for me to go out into the cold :p
This morning I put the system together and installed ubuntu 9.10 from the trusty old usb stick in less then 10 minutes again.  Made an export from wordpress and set up the new system (with the trusty laptop ofc; you won't see me shiver in front of a pc while i can do it from bed *hatjoe!* bless me.) Fastest way of transferring the data would have been to plug one of the old drives into the new system but guess what: lazy!

On my old server all data was stored under /media (bad choice ofc) and decided to put it all on a partition called /data this time. At first i wanted to use dd for transferring the data but decided that would take precious time away from sleep so ended up with scp (since i know that syntax by heart) over the local network @ 100mbit/sec since the old server doesn't have a gigabit port. Transferring 400GB that way takes some time but since it's send and forget i didn't bother about it.

Meanwhile i tweaked the new wordpress instance the way i like it, setted up samba with less restrictions; hey don't need to exclude a roomie from my folders now since i don't have a roomie anymore ;) Pimped the homepage (not many people go there but the old one was really horrible) and went back to being ill.

7 hours after it all started i switched the IP's in the router so http would go to the new server instead of the old and sent the final shutdown commando to the old one.

The old server will be given away except for 1 drive which i will use as offline backup; I went from a raid1 setup to a non-raid setup and all those albums, well they are precious.

So all in all it went übersmooth and for the choosen techniques quite fast (scp instead of dd or cp). Actual stats of this little spot on teh web are always found here

p.s. I still feel like crap :(