{"id":376,"date":"2012-08-20T20:53:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=376"},"modified":"2022-08-12T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:36:51","slug":"hdd-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"HDD meltdown &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The last couple of days have been terribly hot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyon.fr\/page\/accueil.htmlhttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, reaching 41\u00b0C yesterday. Alas, it was way too hot for my home server hard drive, which was already in a <a href=\"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">baaaad shape<\/a>. Of course, it died while I was in the process of a much needed system upgrade (in the spirit of <a href=\"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this other upgrade<\/a>). Which is not exactly a good timing.<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377\" title=\"hot\" src=\"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I struggled for 5-6 hours to get the server running, which included, a brand new hard drive (not easy to find on a Sunday afternoon), data recovery, building a custom Linux kernel, and a installing system and services from scratch. I could recover most of the data loss, also a few MySQL tables were totally corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The web sites are back online (although a bit slower, I still couldn&#8217;t figure why). A few services are still borked, including &#8230; the SMTP service which was originally the purpose of the upgrade. It should be back online soon, just a couple of tables yet to recover (mostly postfix \/ amavis \/ mysql coupling).<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; this mess showed that Ubuntu sucks big time as a server distribution when it comes to these difficulties. At least for me. I should have stuck to Debian, which, I believe, is closer to the metal and eases hardware failure diagnosis. Debian&#8217;s DVD rescue features saved my (old) ass yet once again.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is: this new HDD is so quiet that I kind barely hear it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of days have been terribly hot here, reaching 41\u00b0C yesterday. Alas, it was way too hot for my home server hard drive, which was already in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}