ls.net

I put together a "greener" server. AMD A350, WD "Green" hard drive lots of RAM and little else, installed Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS and somewhat willy nilly checked the box use LVM,(Logical Volume Manager). Several software upgrades went smoothly but then I hit one that brought on feelings of dread. I maintain servers in Galax and Fairfax and this one was in the other place so I postponed the reboot until I could be on-site. In the meantime I had a heart attack and a bypass.

Sure enough the reboot failed and the LVM volume stubbornly refused to boot. After much flailing and gnashing of teeth, I put the old router in place and it wouldn't route.. Fortunately I had left a new standalone router with Troy and TWR, and Troy put it into ervice the next morning and the our TWR network was back online.

I had a partial backup from the morning before the LVM failure and all the websites except one came back up. Unfortunately, that website was ls.net. The binary backup from the morning failed and the most recent source SQL backup that worked was 3 years old.

I am happy to be alive but I have a number of issues to deal with, so I put up a page with a link to Gmail and went to work rebuilding accounting. That completed two weeks later, I returned to the web site matter. The most practical solution was to put up the closest thing to the previous site that came up easily and slip the binary data underneath. Drupal said "not so fast" so I settled for the web site you are looking at at and will mull where to go from here.

Seems like Murphy is sticking around for awhile. I think I will enjoy the Winter Solstice and dream of Spring.