Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - June 2015
Spring is in full blast!
Galleries added this month.
Stories added this month.
Movies added this month.
Working fine.
Molly failed. I was trying out some tweaks on the apache configuration, and it suddenly failed. It's failed so badly that when I reboot it, there's no screen display. It's pulling power, so I don't think it's the PSU. I'll have to get my hands on it to find out what's wrong.
So I brought up alice as a replacement. It's normally powered off, so I powered it on, and updated the files from my latest backup, taken about 12 hours previously. But when I tried to bring it online, I found that I'd forgotten to set up all the usernames, so I had to do that (I had most of them, but five were missing on the backup, because they were newish).
Then I had to ensure that the signup usernames gathered by the signup server could be transferred to alice, check that my firewall configuration was still valid, suddenly remember that I have to do a "clear xlat" in order to be able to access alice instead of molly ... you can see how this goes.
And there were several other minor things I had to make right, so by the time I had it working right, it was four hours later, so I didn't get to sleep until after 5am.
I've changed my backup system slightly, so that these important files are backed up.
And several days later, I noticed a bad smell. Careful investigation revealed that it was coming from one of the UPSes. So I took it offline, and took it apart. The sealed lead acid (SLA) batteries inside were distorted and swollen. It was so bad, I had to use a crowbar and mallet to get them out.
I ordered replacement batteries on Ebay, installed them, and the UPS looks fine now.
And dome days later, I also needed to replace one of my DSL routers (I use them for doing backups).
So, quite a busy month down on the server farm!
Here's the full list of DtV family web sites
I checked the site statistics that Sandra counts up each night.
At the end of May 2015, there were about 1,542,000 pictures (327 gigabytes), 532 gigabytes of video, 15600 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about 862 gigabytes. There's 535,000,000 pictures altogether in Newsthumbs, increasing at about 5 million per month.