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Server Fire
Fri, 2010-04-23 13:00 | by Erin
My wife called me and said that she smelled something burning, coming from my home server so she shut it off. 
When I got home it was and when I turned the server back on fire literally shot out the back. I turned it off quickly and tried to figure out what was wrong.
Anna was very interested in some wires that lead from the case to one of the doors and started yanking on them. I was busy holding a drive in its bay with its cables attached to it, when the metal case door started to slide off the table almost on top of Anna. I grabbed the case door and saved the baby but dropped the drive and the SATA connectors snapped off. CRAP!
When I got home it was and when I turned the server back on fire literally shot out the back. I turned it off quickly and tried to figure out what was wrong.
I pulled open the case and it was caked with
dust. There was also a melted resistor on my video card that must have
caught some of the dust on fire. I cleaned it out and put in a new
video card, which went smooth as silk.
I also screwed
around with trying to rearrange some of the drives in the bays, and
replace the fans and add dust traps too them. That is where the trouble
started.
Anna was very interested in some wires that lead from the case to one of the doors and started yanking on them. I was busy holding a drive in its bay with its cables attached to it, when the metal case door started to slide off the table almost on top of Anna. I grabbed the case door and saved the baby but dropped the drive and the SATA connectors snapped off. CRAP!
That drive held
my main xen DOMU that allowed me to access the server without putting
the rest of the server on the internet. It was very customized and had
lots of little scripts that I used to manage and backup other servers
and do other things. I have a backup of it I thought, and I did, a list
of installed packages, most of the scripts, so I had it up and running
in a day or so later after buying another disk.
There
was only one problem I forgot to back up 2 files. My passwd and shadow
files. This is no big deal for me but there were others people who I do
not talk to so often who had accounts, so if your reading this and can
not connect to the ftp server anymore and want a account. Send me a
e-mail with through this contact form and let me know you want a
account again.