2026-06-11 SERVER BACK UP

I’ve got the Physical Site back up and running.

As some of you know the older server died with 3 of 4 drives in a Raid-5 Array all dying at once or at least the same day. In 50 years of working with computers and servers I’ve never seen that occur.

That also trashed the backup files. I ran several days of testing on the Dell R710 I’ve used for many years. I couldn’t find a problem. I still replaced the Raid Controller, the Power supplies and the drive backplane.

I started reinstalled everything but started experiencing problems. Ram slots being arbitrarily and randomly disabled on startup. Drive not being recognized, software randomly crashing, etc.

I finally pulled out an older Dell Poweredge T410 I haven’t been using, installed 6 brand new drives in a Raid-6 Array and so far it’s been going smoothly. I have all the basic software installed and this stub of a site up and running.

Still dealing with my Wife’s death a couple weeks ago and a LOT still to do here with all the Family coming in next week for her Memorial here. I’m going to work on the site at least a couple hours a day to get it rebuilt. First step will be the Books Download then we’ll go from there.

The Librarian