[plug] Dying Samba Server

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 11/6/06, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> >>
> >> Dead HDD? :(
> >
> > Probably. Or RAM. But given the DMA stuff I'd be looking at the HDD
> > quite squarely. You did back up and stuff after I suggested it could
> > be that before right? =)
> >
> > Tomasz
> > _______________________________________________
> I ended up ghosting onto a spare drive, then running fdisk /mbr from a
> Win 98 boot floppy (as GRUB wouldn't start up..), and then all was good.
>
> Ran Seagate's utility on the drive, showed it as being no good, so
> getting that RA'd now.. Going to dump in a second hard drive now, and
> RSync to it every night.
>
>
> Was lucky this time, but maybe next time I won't be.. so will follow a
> strict backup routine :)
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Software RAID may be a good option for a server-kind of machine if you
have to rebuild the beast anyway (or if you make a tarball of the
whole HDD)..

Anyway looks like you've found and fixed the problem.

Tomasz