The switch is done!
Friday, December 15th, 2006Yeah, this is a pretty geeky post, but what a big move. For the last..oh man, a long time, I’ve been prepping the new Athlon X2 64 / Solaris 10 server to take over for my venerable FC5 Linux server (600MHz & 512MB of ram). Anyway, the move happened without incident, and all the planning made it go with the greatest of ease. I leveraged CFEngine for keeping track of any OS customization, and that helped a lot (nice way to document what was done). The scary part was I was using a Megaraid 150-4 controller, and the old system had 3 drives in it. Well, all my data were on those drives, so I moved them off onto my desktop (about 100GB of data), and formatted those drives. Yikes! Scary moment- endless thoughts of ‘did I get everything.. what about ?’ kind of thing. So far, no panic, and I think I got everything. Great day. 