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Well.. Too bad that my server is being hacked by someone, and inject some zombie code to attack other servers. I found that on last night, clean those zombie code, change admin password and so on. BTW, it is still too late that No-IP have already block my user account... I should check my server more often.

According to my crashed WD5000YS, most of the data are loss. Well... just let it be. On the other hand, it is a good chance for me to have a flash new install of Drupal 6.1, with the clean up of existing messy blog :p

Legacy data are all located in http://edin.no-ip.com/legacy/ and I will migrate the user accounts with SQL only. The other stuff will be migrated with manual handling. Please feel free to contact me if you have any suggestion :)

You may found that my site have been down for few days. And after that, some files are gone, e.g. screenshot, patch file, music, anime, etc. The reason is very simple: My WD5000YS is gone, and so all related data are gone, too ;-(

So what's happened? This is totally my fault, as I forget to backup data before critical action... BTW, that is not easy to find an additional storage space for backup 4xxGB data, too...

I buy 2 new Western Digital 500GB harddisk (WD5001ABYS), plug into my 3Ware 9650SE 8 port RAID6 controller, and hope to upgrade from single disk to 3 disk RAID5. 3Ware's document says that this controller can handle the merge and migrate operation well without remove and restore data; on the other hand, the target disk set can even still operate during migration.

But finally the case is not such simple: I start the upgrade process, but it halt on without any action. The old WS5000YS is keep on reading, but no data is moved to the 2 new WD5001ABYS, even after 3 hours operation... And after that, some crazy sound coming from my old WD5000YS, and it is no longer able to be detected by ANY SATA controller (I try for 3 motherboards and even SATA -> USB adapter)... So it is now physically damaged...

I search though google and found that WD5000YS is buggy, and firmware upgrade is released on Nov 2007... They fix some RAID problem within this upgrade... Which also means that WD5000YS is buggy for RAID; but I am not even operating a RAID, but I am merge, migrate and upgrading a RAID! I think this is the critical problem...

Anyway, thanks god that the DB of this site is locate in other harddisk, and so most research progress are still here. BTW, I lose all other stuff, where some of them are keeped since few years before...

So here is my minor request: if you have download something from my website before, and you would like to give me a hand, please contact me. I hope to restore as much information as possible, and your help will give me a great hand ;-)

Server is down in yesterday due to system and service upgrade. My server is now running with a new AX2 4200+ (TDP 65W), remove the useless SATA addon card, and also reinstall OS with Debian etch 40r1 amd64.

Try about Apache2.2 mod_authz_dbd (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_authz_dbd.html), check if it is able to replace the old mod_auth_mysql module, but fail. All private services authentication will keep as old standard: user login in this blog for a one-day-pass ticket. Document will update for this rule, soon.

Also install vexim (https://edin.no-ip.com/vexim/) + eGroupWare (https://edin.no-ip.com/egroupware/) as email service backend + SSL protection. I will use this suit and test it with my partners, about a new project. We are now hard working about this proposal, and I will soon report about its status. BTW, I guess some of my friends already know the detail of this project ;p

P.S. Still thinking about the 3Ware 9650SE RAID card... when can I have that? My Storage is now keep on ~90% usage...