There's two hard drives in our server (well I guess they're not hard drives anymore, they're those new solid-state thingies the size of a stick of RAM that go super fast) and everything goes on both, so when one breaks I get an email saying yo one drive broke and then I take backups of everything and swap out the dead drive for a new one and copy everything back over to the new drive. It takes a while

Disk swap request sent, now we wait.

Disk swapped out and the system didn't boot, so I guess I'm not going anywhere tonight lol, if you know any Islanders kindly spread the word to them

Gonna try and have things back up and running this evening, I'll keep you all informed as best I can

Resilvering the new drive now, this'll take a hot minute. I get to watch a terminal making a progress bar with [======>...] like a balaclava hacker boy

K now I gotta mess with the bootloader, but I'm doing it in an unfamiliar environment and in kinda a fucky way since the machine couldn't boot, so I gotta familiarize myself with how to do this

Yeah nope we're down for the night, there's something else screwy going on and I know better than to try to fuck around with bootloaders this close to midnight

Good morning, coffee's on, kid's dropped off at school, I'm diving back in

fucking efi partitions and bootloaders and did I even do this right the last time we had a bad hard drive ffs, moving to managed hosting is looking more and more attractive every day

There was a thing at the pinball place we called the Tech Black Hole, where you see a guy next to an open machine scratching his head so you go over and see if he needs any help and half an hour later there's four guys around the open machine scratching their heads

Still working on it, breaking for dinner

Yeah it's 11:30 at night and I rrrrreally don't wanna go with Plan B, emergency server migration and restore from backup, but it's looking increasingly likely