Saving a dying server
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Might be worth using a direct P2V tool to do the backup in this case. If this was my situation, this is likely what I would do:
- Tell the users that between their decisions and whoever installed this decisions, the system cannot be used now and they don't have any vote in this whatsoever. Tell them the way things have to be, don't let them throw away the company's data because they will just blame you for this later.
- Determine where data is stored. Likely only in MySQL. Use MySQL's own tools and do a database dump ASAP.
- Shut down the databases and all applications.
- Do a direct P2V to a production platform.
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Whoa
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@johnhooks that's nothing - it was twice that yesterday
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@johnhooks said:
Whoa
Pretty sure this disk is right proper hosed. Either it has surface damage or the surface is de-laminating - something really really bad.
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Ok so this is a serious question. I've never dealt with dedicated hosting somewhere else. Do they not maintain this stuff? So you really are just paying them for electricity and internet?
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@johnhooks said:
Ok so this is a serious question. I've never dealt with dedicated hosting somewhere else. Do they not maintain this stuff? So you really are just paying them for electricity and internet?
That's what a hosting facility does. They provide the electric, internet and HVAC. You are in charge of everything else.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Ok so this is a serious question. I've never dealt with dedicated hosting somewhere else. Do they not maintain this stuff? So you really are just paying them for electricity and internet?
That's what a hosting facility does. They provide the electric, internet and HVAC. You are in charge of everything else.
I thought you could have a colo do that type of stuff for you? If not, what's the advantage to paying for dedicated servers that you can't access over a colo?
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@johnhooks said:
Whoa
That's, um, high.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Ok so this is a serious question. I've never dealt with dedicated hosting somewhere else. Do they not maintain this stuff? So you really are just paying them for electricity and internet?
That's what a hosting facility does. They provide the electric, internet and HVAC. You are in charge of everything else.
I thought you could have a colo do that type of stuff for you? If not, what's the advantage to paying for dedicated servers that you can't access over a colo?
uh - yeah I agree with JH here - hosting to me I think of VM's on your platform... Colo means my equipment I'm responsible.
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If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
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@dafyre said:
If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
They don't have RAID, though. The colo should do that... but you'd be left with a dead system. I'm guessing no IPMI system either, if they didn't even bother with RAID.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
They don't have RAID, though. The colo should do that... but you'd be left with a dead system. I'm guessing no IPMI system either, if they didn't even bother with RAID.
Take for instance, the server that I have with KimSufi... I don't have raid in that box. If the HD dies, then whoops!
They replace the hard drive, and I re-image through their web portal and restore my data from backups.
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@johnhooks said:
Whoa
If bet if you check using top or glances, you'll see the IO Wait % is very high.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
They don't have RAID, though. The colo should do that... but you'd be left with a dead system. I'm guessing no IPMI system either, if they didn't even bother with RAID.
His might not, but I just looked at the Fasthosts site and they advertise RAID 1 for their smallest quad core system. It's still $70 a month just for a desktop processor and 12 GB RAM.
Which sucks. If I pay that price today I get RAID1, so why doesn't he get it? (Unless he has a grandfathered price).
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
They don't have RAID, though. The colo should do that... but you'd be left with a dead system. I'm guessing no IPMI system either, if they didn't even bother with RAID.
His might not, but I just looked at the Fasthosts site and they advertise RAID 1 for their smallest quad core system. It's still $70 a month just for a desktop processor and 12 GB RAM.
Which sucks. If I pay that price today I get RAID1, so why doesn't he get it? (Unless he has a grandfathered price).
He said that it had no RAID at the beginning.
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@johnhooks said:
Which sucks. If I pay that price today I get RAID1, so why doesn't he get it? (Unless he has a grandfathered price).
Not related. Not like your server moves hardware on its own. It stays on what you started on. To migrate it would need downtime.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
If you are renting a dedicated server from a facility, you should be able to call their support and tell them what is going on, so they can replace the faulty drive for you (after you have good backups, of course!)
They don't have RAID, though. The colo should do that... but you'd be left with a dead system. I'm guessing no IPMI system either, if they didn't even bother with RAID.
His might not, but I just looked at the Fasthosts site and they advertise RAID 1 for their smallest quad core system. It's still $70 a month just for a desktop processor and 12 GB RAM.
Which sucks. If I pay that price today I get RAID1, so why doesn't he get it? (Unless he has a grandfathered price).
He said that it had no RAID at the beginning.
I must have glossed over that.
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He said single drive. Maybe that is wrong If it is wrong, they should swap the drive ASAP.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Which sucks. If I pay that price today I get RAID1, so why doesn't he get it? (Unless he has a grandfathered price).
Not related. Not like your server moves hardware on its own. It stays on what you started on. To migrate it would need downtime.
It won't move hardware, but you would be able to move the data. Which I guess you could buy another and move the data, but they could give you a free window to get that done.
