Hi Mimi,

Thank you, that's very kind :)

I'm glad you turned a negative, not many people know how to that. BTW Have
I
ever thanked you for the military service?

Warmest wishes,
Shannon

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Shannon Talley -> All wrote:

Although not much in the way of a foot note of history, I had a catastrophic
hardware failure on FidoTel and the physical machine and most of one of

the

primary hard drives failed and was unrecoverable.

On the positive side, I started scraping up the physical machine into a Virtual Machine using a VMware utility. It scraped up the hard drives into single files across the network. Although I wasn't technically ready for

a

fail over site, I was forced into the world of home based virtual

computing

when the physical machine failed. The virtual machine is about a month

old

so I'll loose echomail and files for the last month, but a small price to pay for having the BBS in tact and back up.

As a note to users of FidoTel, all messages between September 8th and

today

are gone and unrecoverable. The BBS is exactly as it was about one month ago.

What an interesting world.

I'm so soory tha happen to you. :(

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Hi Mimi,

Thank you for the concern. It forced me to make a decision; keep the BBS or sink it. I
already had a SAN at home and the right architecture, so this solves a lot of problems. I
was looking at upgrading the OS and getting new hardware; this puts it all on a
single
server already serving up VM's anyway - no need to upgrade anything. In fact, I'm
greener having reduced my server footprint. I assume you know what I mean by "Virtual Machine" (VM), it's worth a wiki; it's an incredibly interesting technology, imho.
It solves many issues regarding the handling of cloud computing.

What an interesting world.

I'm so soory tha happen to you. :(

Warmest regards,
Shannon

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Thank you for the concern. It forced me to make a decision; keep the
BBS or sink it. I
already had a SAN at home and the right architecture, so this solves
a lot of problems. I
was looking at upgrading the OS and getting new hardware; this puts
it all on a single
server already serving up VM's anyway - no need to upgrade anything.
In fact, I'm
greener having reduced my server footprint. I assume you know what I ST>mean by "Virtual Machine" (VM), it's worth a wiki; it's an
incredibly interesting technology, imho.
It solves many issues regarding the handling of cloud computing.

For as many as it solves, it creates just as many new ones, especially
for large corporations. Security is one of the biggest challenges.


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999
Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment .....

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Shannon Talley -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

Hi Mimi,

Thank you for the concern. It forced me to make a decision; keep the
BBS or sink it. I
already had a SAN at home and the right architecture, so this solves a
lot of problems. I
was looking at upgrading the OS and getting new hardware; this puts it
all on a single
server already serving up VM's anyway - no need to upgrade anything. In fact, I'm
greener having reduced my server footprint. I assume you know what I
mean by
"Virtual Machine" (VM), it's worth a wiki; it's an incredibly
interesting technology, imho.
It solves many issues regarding the handling of cloud computing.

What an interesting world.

I'm so soory tha happen to you. :(

I'm glad you turned a negative, not many people know how to that. BTW Have I ever thanked you for the military service?

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