Downtime for disk swap

[Tony]

Just a pre-warning, I'm going to take the server offline this evening because I'm worried about the reliability of the Seagate Pipeline HD.2 drives in it.  I've seen a few failures so don't trust them much.  Got some nice Western Digital Blues to replace them

[Tony]

The drive swap didn't go smoothly, back on the original drives - will try again tomorrow!

[Julian]

Well, I'm shocked ... I'd have thought if anybody could sort it ...

Is it just a matter of copying data from old to new and bolting them in, or am I looking at things in my usual, simplistic manner?

[Tony]

That's pretty much it, but I took the opportunity to resize some of the partitions on the newly copied disks, and I think that's where there were problems.

It takes a fair while to duplicate 1TB drives so just ran out of time to do it again.

[Chug]

Ah good, this explains why I couldn't connect yesterday evening, top man Tony

[Tony]

It will inevitably be down again today, this time I'll not be resizing partitions I think!

[Julian]

Good luck, hope it goes OK this time.

I'd offer to help, but the chances of me being any use are rather slim!

[Tony]

All done!

[Jamesrl]

but the chances of me being any use are rather slim!

Which is more than can be said for yourself.

[Jamesrl]

All done!

Welcombe back.

[Tony]

I'm glad that the first thing the new disks get used for is recording personal abuse for perpetuity.

[Jamesrl]

I'm glad that the first thing the new disks get used for is recording personal abuse for perpetuity.

I thought that that was what they're for.

[Head Womble]

I'm glad that the first thing the new disks get used for is recording personal abuse for perpetuity.

I thought that that was what they're for.

It does account for over 50% of all posts.