Geek Stuff

[Kruger]

Ugh, I'm still so 90's....  I "planned" to build a nice new(ish) server with RAID and redundancy.  I just never got around to it, and it really bit me in the ass this time.  It looks like it was just the web server and media servers along with the music libraries that went away.  While it's just a pain, I still have all of those CDs so it'll just be time consumed to re-rip everything again.  The drive with all of my video on it was mounted into the html/video folder and since that didn't exist anymore, rsync just left the backup alone.  I think that's kind of what happened that first time when it didn't see the html folder it was left alone on the backup.

Anyway, I just did my testing when getting that set up and I could recover, I just never tested the drive failure part of it and so it was a wait and see sort of thing.  I just set it to run every night and check it daily for about a month then less frequently as time went on.  Until I try to listen to music...

I still like the delete feature, it keeps things "clean" while I rearrange tings on occasion.  But I might add some error checking to make sure there is content in the mount point before trying to backup, and maybe doing the backup without delete daily, and then once a month manually run a backup script with delete once I confirm it's all good.

Oh the joys of having a home network.  Now if only I can squeeze another hour or two out of my day for management...