Maintenance

We now have a replacement for rutabaga. I'll be copying the data to secondary storage first so I can use the enterprise drives out of rutabaga in the new box. We also purchased some monitors and a new linux box like the last 2. I'll be up to my ears in hardware tasks for at least the rest of the week. Still to do: Build RAID 6 array in new NAS and transfer all data over. Build new linux box with my script. Move furniture and computers around to accommodate the new machine. Clean up the huge mess I've generated in the meantime.

I'm now having trouble reading anything from the array. I'm hoping it's rutabaga being flaky and not the drives.
I have a complete copy of the data from a couple of weeks ago, so it shouldn't be a big deal if I can't continue with my backup.
Because all the drives I intend to use in the new NAS are occupied I'm going to need to move stuff around a bit circuitously. I'll start on that tomorrow seeing as how the copy I've been running for the last 4 hours has now crapped-out!

It appears as though every time rutabaga is powered down the RAID array loses its marbles.
This time the new drive got dropped from the array. In fact, the drive didn't even show up in 3 reboots. I just powered up the machine and now it *does* show up. So I went through the same process as previously described, and I'm rebuilding the array right now. So far all appears OK.
UPDATE: array is now rebuilt (15:20) and all appears to be fine.

Although all of our new-ish Linux cubes have eSATAp connectors on them, I've had a hard time sourcing a cable that will allow me to connect an un-enclosed drive to the eSATAp port. I eventually found this:
http://www.cablesonline.com/39pooves5vsa.html, for $20.
I checked with monoprice live help; they don't have them but they say they'll look at getting them.

Because tomcat is installed in a slightly different location on pear the old init script didn't work. RE has created a new script called "tomcat" in the init.d directory. Don't use the old jakarta-tomcat script anymore.