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03-14-2006, 04:03 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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long time server usage, hard drive might be under pressure
i have a server with the planet for more than 18 months now.
recently, it has started giving troubles and whenever i restart (using remote reboot), it takes a lot of time, even 10 - 15 mintues, to maybe complete scandisk and then start.
the server has been under good load for past 1 and half year.
I now fear that the hard disk could be under some trouble.
Can anyone guide me on the same.
Should i ask the planet to replace the hard drive with a new one ( am not sure if they do, and how much will they charge for whole shifting to new drive )
or should i just buy a new server with them and get on with new things.
the server is having nearly 300 hosted websites, so moving wont be that easy.
please suggest.
thanks
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03-14-2006, 04:11 PM #2Junior Guru
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You on RAID or is this just 1 drive?
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03-14-2006, 04:14 PM #3Web Hosting Guru
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1 drive of 80 GB
also, no back ups, which makes me worry
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03-14-2006, 04:23 PM #4Eternal Member
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Personally I would backup everything *ASAP* to an offsite account or perhaps ThePlanet's NAS backup system. Then, get a new HD, OS reload, restore. This time you may also want to get a secondary drive for backups.
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03-14-2006, 04:24 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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You must be nuts... Backup whole server ASAP
Originally Posted by gdtechind
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03-14-2006, 04:27 PM #6Web Hosting Guru
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i have the back up, but not of the complete server, just the important files and databases
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03-14-2006, 04:44 PM #7Business Consultant Manager
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Your best bet is to either call or open up a ticket in orbit and describe the problem as you see it. If the hdd is going bad TP will put in a new one for free. I would backup your important files, as backing up the whole hdd seems rather foolish. As its a lot of space and probably more than 50% of the drive you don't need.
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03-14-2006, 04:49 PM #8Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by RealtorHost
copied important files to one other server
and sent the details of trouble to the planet
waiting for their reply on ticket
thanks for your suggestions
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03-14-2006, 05:05 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by gdtechind
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03-14-2006, 05:11 PM #10Web Hosting Guru
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i got your idea, i have thought to shift a few important websites on other server and in the meantime, i hope to get the hard drive changed
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03-14-2006, 05:29 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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You can just have them stick the new drive in as slave, back everything up on there, then mount it as master.
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03-14-2006, 06:04 PM #12Web Hosting Guru
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they replied and said the following
1. they will need me to give them some more information and proof if there is any hard disk issue.
2. if i provide them the information, they will test the hard drive offline, they tell this will bring server down by 4 - 6 hours.
3. then they will replace the drive, only if they find any troubles.