breauxlg
September 3rd, 2009, 06:47 PM
I had a server with windows small business server 2003 installed on it that ran for 5 years without me ever having to reload it. I bought a new server with windows server 2008, so I decided to load Ubuntu on the old server (which never gave me any trouble.) I followed one of the perfect server tutorials and got it up and running.
I was really excited to get this done and was telling everyone about how fast the setup was and how everything, including my Epson All-in-one just worked.
I saw the ispconfig tutorial and decided to add that to my server. It killed the server and I found out after posting a question on the forums that the entire ispconfig install tutorial must be followed, although that was not made clear on the tutorial.
I started again from scratch and got the server up and running again, reloaded my content again, and got the web and mail server running again. This is a straight Ubuntu-only install, not dual boot, or anything like that.
I had a power outage, the battery backup ran down and when power came back on, I went to boot my servers, and the iSeries came up fine, the Windows 2008 server came up fine and the Ubuntu server could not find grub - not that it was obvious - at the time it just would not boot. It took some research to find out the grub was missing. I have been through several questions on the forum that were like mine, but none of the has worked. It appears that the disk configuration is hosed.
I followed one of the backup tutorials that I found on the forums, but it backs up the system onto the same hard disk that the system is on. I tried to find a backup that would let me save to my secondary hard drive and couldn't find a way to mount that hard drive, much less backup to it.
I guess I have a few of questions:
Is there anything comparable to the disk management function on Windows server for mounting additional hard drives?
Is there an imaging program that will let me make a copy of my primary hard drive that can either be booted, or easily restored?
Am I wasting my time trying to get this to work? Is 9.04 stable enough to actually try to use in a production environment?
I am at the point of having to reload once more, I guess. I'm not nearly as excited as I was the first time I loaded the system. I guess I'll have to reload the web sites and email domains, etc.
I would really like to get an idea of how to NOT have to reload when problems like this arise. This will probably be the last time I try this.
Sorry to sound so down, but this has taken a lot more of my time than I expected. I'm no genius, but I've got a degree in Computer Science and have been making my living developing software since 1977 and have had my own company since 1982 and I can't get this to work. I can see a lot of potential, but have not been able to tap the potential for myself.
By the way, my goal is to setup a web and mail server and create a drupal website for a non-profit organization to let Christian bands and Christian venue's connect via searchable criteria. i.e. A heavy metal Christian band will play for free within a 100 mile radius of their home town. A progressive church 50 miles away wants a band to come to their facility to provide alternative-style Christian music to their youth group. If they were both users of my website, I would like for them to be able to find each other easily.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Lynn
I was really excited to get this done and was telling everyone about how fast the setup was and how everything, including my Epson All-in-one just worked.
I saw the ispconfig tutorial and decided to add that to my server. It killed the server and I found out after posting a question on the forums that the entire ispconfig install tutorial must be followed, although that was not made clear on the tutorial.
I started again from scratch and got the server up and running again, reloaded my content again, and got the web and mail server running again. This is a straight Ubuntu-only install, not dual boot, or anything like that.
I had a power outage, the battery backup ran down and when power came back on, I went to boot my servers, and the iSeries came up fine, the Windows 2008 server came up fine and the Ubuntu server could not find grub - not that it was obvious - at the time it just would not boot. It took some research to find out the grub was missing. I have been through several questions on the forum that were like mine, but none of the has worked. It appears that the disk configuration is hosed.
I followed one of the backup tutorials that I found on the forums, but it backs up the system onto the same hard disk that the system is on. I tried to find a backup that would let me save to my secondary hard drive and couldn't find a way to mount that hard drive, much less backup to it.
I guess I have a few of questions:
Is there anything comparable to the disk management function on Windows server for mounting additional hard drives?
Is there an imaging program that will let me make a copy of my primary hard drive that can either be booted, or easily restored?
Am I wasting my time trying to get this to work? Is 9.04 stable enough to actually try to use in a production environment?
I am at the point of having to reload once more, I guess. I'm not nearly as excited as I was the first time I loaded the system. I guess I'll have to reload the web sites and email domains, etc.
I would really like to get an idea of how to NOT have to reload when problems like this arise. This will probably be the last time I try this.
Sorry to sound so down, but this has taken a lot more of my time than I expected. I'm no genius, but I've got a degree in Computer Science and have been making my living developing software since 1977 and have had my own company since 1982 and I can't get this to work. I can see a lot of potential, but have not been able to tap the potential for myself.
By the way, my goal is to setup a web and mail server and create a drupal website for a non-profit organization to let Christian bands and Christian venue's connect via searchable criteria. i.e. A heavy metal Christian band will play for free within a 100 mile radius of their home town. A progressive church 50 miles away wants a band to come to their facility to provide alternative-style Christian music to their youth group. If they were both users of my website, I would like for them to be able to find each other easily.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Lynn