The old backup script that is… not as sophisticated as the CPanel one, but… at least it didn’t bring the server down! :-D I might just be able to get to sleep before daylight tonight.
Well, much as expected the backup script from CPanel brought down services again this morning, damnit. I really like the way it packages accounts though, so they’re fully portable… but I can’t be having the server die every morning around 5am. I’ve killed backup processing through this ‘new’ script and will start using the old script. I’ve also registered positivefusion.org .net and .info, I’ll be using positivefusion.info as the secondary support website. Thankfully I was able to ’swap’ hosting accounts for this purpose with another webhosting provider. The data centre offered me a remote reboot switch… as you can imagine I’m chomping for that one, so hopefully I’ll get that taken care of and installed soon… then no more waiting for support people; I can just send the reboot request myself, whee!
sleep now… hopefully.
I’ve probably been a very poor conversationalist over the last couple of days, but hopefully everyone understands that I’ve been extremely busy, extremely overworked, and extremely tired.
I’ve pretty much finished my bar… I need to go take an inventory I guess, or, uh, just add my receipt from the other day to the list… but I have tons and tons of alcohol, it’s breathtaking. Pretty much every night I make a new drink, try it out, etc… it’s kind of fun actually. I kind of wish that DaVe was here though, so we could experiment with mixing new drinks, hehe.
I didn’t get to go with Andrew lastnight to whatever it was that he wanted me to go with him to, I knew I’d spend the entire night working and indeed I did… from midnight through ten in the morning… *sigh*
I’ve been thinking of Davey a lot lately, but I guess that’s pretty normal for me… I’m worried about him… a completely useless waste of energy, but… it happens.
I’ve had some wicked dreams lately… unfortunately I’ve been too busy to remind myself to write them down and thus, well, they’re gone from memory.
Right, so… I’m nearly asleep, after what I feel is a fairly smooth night of hellish work… (yes, I realize that is a bit of an oxymoron), and my pager screams and bops around… “picasso.positivefusion.com - HTTP Failure” …*sigh* well… at least I know what happened, the backup script went bezerk, hopefully that isn’t going to be a normal thing… I doubt it, since it was doing fine all week. Now… to try and get at least a short nap. ….good thing for five minute http monitoring though… ping monitoring wouldn’t have ever caught that the backup script killed apache.
Server move is done… all accounts transferred (hopefully, haha.. no really, they’re all moved, I didn’t forget any… infact I have more than I thought I should have… O.O)… dns for alh, gl, and pfws all changed… every account, with the exception of greylogs, have had their ‘old’ dns zone file updated to speed up the whole domain ‘working’ process… and… I am absolutely 100% tired… my head is pounding, my eyes are dry and… icky… and I am practically praying that there will not be too many problems waiting for me after my tiny little nap.