/TECH
I went to move a temporary Minecraft server to a permanent home on a Linux VM and I realized, I couldn't remember how I setup Balrog (my original Minecraft server). It took me longer than I anticipated to set up the new server, Gryphon to act as our survival mode Minecraft server and thus I was up until 2am last Friday night/Saturday morning. But I did it much cleaner than my setup for Balrog. In fact, Balrog needs to get an upgrade to a 64-bit OS so that I can allocate more RAM to it.
So yeah, I realized that since I've been slacking off on my Linux skills, I have once again lost them to a certain degree. Now, it was much easier to find reminders this time since the knowledge was already in my brain but just not accessible. What probably took me 6 hours the first time took a mere 2 hours the second time. And I presume that now that I have a few tricks up my sleeve and haven't taken quite as much of a vacation from it, I should be able to rebuild Balrog in a quick 30 minutes.
My friend Andy, who is way better with Linux than I am, is the one who got me into Proxmox and has a server of his own. In fact it was his project and encouragement that inspired me to set up my server. He sadly informed me today that the 300GB hard drive in Serenity (his Proxmox server) died and took with it several of his virtual machines. He lost his blog, FOG server, his brother's Minecraft server, and I think one other service. A moment of silence for the lost bits. ... ...
But his loss has inspired me once again, and this time it will be a collaborative effort between us. Of course my first question was if we needed to obtain some new hard drives. The answer was of course "yes". So hopefully by the end of the year both of us will have obtained at least one of Western Digital's new Red drives. These drives are designed to be used in storage systems and run 24/7. At said point, or perhaps before, we will also endeavor to set up a back up system between our servers. Doppelganger will back up all critical files to Serenity and vice-versa. Once we accomplish this, our data will be more secure. Eventually we will probably even have them synchronize our storage drives. It's win-win.
/EXISTENCE
My blog entry isn't just about exercising our knowledge however, as I have recently set out to get more physical exercise. I need this too as I have reached too many extra ranks in circumference recently and need to lose those ranks. And like my Linux skills, if I slack off I lose the benefits of exercise. So here's my goal: to walk for fitness 1 mile everyday. So far I'm walking about to every other day. In fact I need only about 17 minutes for the actual walking. And my new Saucony shoes mean my feet won't be crying at the end.
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
I went to move a temporary Minecraft server to a permanent home on a Linux VM and I realized, I couldn't remember how I setup Balrog (my original Minecraft server). It took me longer than I anticipated to set up the new server, Gryphon to act as our survival mode Minecraft server and thus I was up until 2am last Friday night/Saturday morning. But I did it much cleaner than my setup for Balrog. In fact, Balrog needs to get an upgrade to a 64-bit OS so that I can allocate more RAM to it.
So yeah, I realized that since I've been slacking off on my Linux skills, I have once again lost them to a certain degree. Now, it was much easier to find reminders this time since the knowledge was already in my brain but just not accessible. What probably took me 6 hours the first time took a mere 2 hours the second time. And I presume that now that I have a few tricks up my sleeve and haven't taken quite as much of a vacation from it, I should be able to rebuild Balrog in a quick 30 minutes.
My friend Andy, who is way better with Linux than I am, is the one who got me into Proxmox and has a server of his own. In fact it was his project and encouragement that inspired me to set up my server. He sadly informed me today that the 300GB hard drive in Serenity (his Proxmox server) died and took with it several of his virtual machines. He lost his blog, FOG server, his brother's Minecraft server, and I think one other service. A moment of silence for the lost bits. ... ...
But his loss has inspired me once again, and this time it will be a collaborative effort between us. Of course my first question was if we needed to obtain some new hard drives. The answer was of course "yes". So hopefully by the end of the year both of us will have obtained at least one of Western Digital's new Red drives. These drives are designed to be used in storage systems and run 24/7. At said point, or perhaps before, we will also endeavor to set up a back up system between our servers. Doppelganger will back up all critical files to Serenity and vice-versa. Once we accomplish this, our data will be more secure. Eventually we will probably even have them synchronize our storage drives. It's win-win.
/EXISTENCE
My blog entry isn't just about exercising our knowledge however, as I have recently set out to get more physical exercise. I need this too as I have reached too many extra ranks in circumference recently and need to lose those ranks. And like my Linux skills, if I slack off I lose the benefits of exercise. So here's my goal: to walk for fitness 1 mile everyday. So far I'm walking about to every other day. In fact I need only about 17 minutes for the actual walking. And my new Saucony shoes mean my feet won't be crying at the end.
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
love it Pete. good luck on a lifetime physical fitness prog
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