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Slow blogging week

It’s been slow blogging this last week or so – it is the end of the fiscal year at Novell – and that’s been taking up a lot of my time.

There is fresh snow on the mountains – and it is freezing overnight in Utah – I’ll get some photos of the snow posted later today.

Why disaster recovery is important

I lost a blog server.

postmark.net were a free web-based email provider.

Their homepage tells a sobering tale:

Early last week, Postmark’s repositories of user mail and account information were lost to a serious hardware failure. The resulting damage left us unable to recover any useful data, and as such, Postmark.net is shutting down. In its stead, we recommend Google’s own Google Mail service, which offers superior storage and search capacities.

Blog server outage – and being away

Typical isn’t it – you get on a plane and one of your serves dies.

My blog server decided to complain about the lack of attention last Sunday evening – just as I was getting on a flight to London. Cycling the power really didn’t help – it needed fsck on the filesystem.

Now I’m back it’s a lot happier.

Apologies for the lack of updates in the last week!