Today was a Server Room Day. I spent almost all of my time in there. We’ve been having some trouble with our source code server that was, at first, being blamed on our backup procedure. It was found out today that the problem is a corrupt file that the revision control software uses. These files can be rebuilt, and to top it off we’ve purchased a newer, faster server to replace this one as well.
So to test things out, I formatted the new server (Quad Core Xeon, 4Gb RAM, 1Tb RAID5, Windows Server 2003 x64) and restored files from tape. I could have copied them from the current server, but this was a good time to test our disaster recovery process from the beginning. Everything went fine, until I tried to rebuild the database files—the backup copy of the journal file that keeps track of changes between checkpoints has a problem on line 7,388,817. Yeah, that’s gonna be fun to track down…
Anyway, the server seems to be working good, but I’m still going to have to come in tomorrow and do the final migration and swapping out of the old server. The licensing is tied to the machine’s IP address, so it can’t really even be tested before it gets rolled out.
We got four more inches of snow today.
When will it end?????