Thursday, August 17, 2006

the bitch is dead,

the bitch in this case is a server called venus and decided 2 days ago to stop working. Sadly this is my database server containning our production database...

so it was time to find out if the backups are working. After 8h I finally had a temporaery database server up and running with a minimal loss of data ( arround 300 samples, are calculating right now again).


now I planned to create a new server using:

- gentoo as base system
- xen for virtualisation
- lvm for storage management
- redhat/centos enterprise linux as virtual machine for the oracle database
- minimal gentoo as virtual machine for the application server

the final plan is to migrate all my server to xen with an atttached nas to allow the migration of servers without any downtime.