Sever situation
Saturday, August 30, 2008This is to update the sever problems / data recovery.
My extra memory came in the other day - Wednesday I think. And since my computer was compiling a single drive image of the data, I decided to wait. But, since it was taking SO long (I think it was around 26% after 2-3 days), I decided to stop and install my memory and start the GetDataBack again. Which I did. Install, anyway.
My computer is a MacPro, but running Win XP 32 bit on it. Come to find out, my XP didn’t recognize my extra memory. Nice. Boot in Leopard, it saw all 6g. Well, there’s something going on there, which I never did get to the bottom of, other than if I wanted to use all my memory, I’d pretty well have to go to Vista 64 bit (which I do plan on putting on, once my data is all safe and sound.) But, now what do I do?
Well, Friday our new server came in. Yeah! This has 4g ram, no OS, 2 gig NIC cards, so first thing is to put some server OS on it. We picked Win 2008 64bit, which went on just fine. It took me a little to configure to hook up to the NAS box, but it did go together just fine. Next thing to do is to consolidate all the drive images to the NAS, so I copied the remainder files over last night.
I was pretty excited to have the new server and everything working well, so I didn’t get much sleep last night. I was in the office by 5, getting GetDataBack started. And it’s running now, and probably will be for the next day or so (currently at 10%, 5 hours later, but it does seem to slow down as time goes on.) Analyzing 4 billion sectors does take some time. However, it is faster than before, because the images are all on the NAS, which is all gig-nic, better than usb2 that some was going through before. I do hope this is the light to the end of the tunnel, as it’s been over a month to get to this point.
So, while this runs, I’m able to gather together a couple-skid order to go to Canada, as well as work on the Kindle version of the Stranger, among several other things going on too.
