Yesterday around 3:00 pm my server decided to quit – this wouldn’t really be a “big deal” except that I also have my e-mail and run my website “Crazytrike” on it.
In December I decided to test Microsoft’s “Home Server” and see what all the fuss was about.
I put together some harware, added drives and installed the latested version of “Home Server” and in January began moving my movie collection to it, and as an afterthought installed the connector to my server and began running automated full backups on a nightly basis – apart from the nightly backup of my website.
Never thought I would need to use the backup (famous last words!)
Wednesday afternoon I got the opportunity to test out the restore feature of the “Home Server” backup. This couldn’t have been any easier:
1) Put in the “Home Server” Backup Restore cd into my SBS servers DVD drive and boot from it.
2) Ensure I had the latest drivers for my server’s hardware on a USB drive so the restore process could find it.
3) Once booted, the restore process finds the “Home Server” and then asks which machine you want to restore.
4) Select the machine you want to restore, and then the restore process begins.
5 hours later (yes my SBS server is fairly large -150gbs – even after I moved 1tb of movies to my “Home Server”, my server is back up and running.
Pretty painless considering the alternative.
I suppose the Dems are not getting the message that as a whole, the American people do not want government controlled health care.
The only way to get our public officials attention is to vote them out.
If they decide to force feed this to us like they are threatening, we need to be prepared to push back and eliminate the garbage legislation.
That’s the key to all of this, rolling the mess back, even better, eliminating the mess altogether.
Tonight began my “riding season”…
Small steps in that I rode only 45 minutes.
As the year progresses and I ride more often it becomes very easy to ride for hours at a time. During the course of the week, I end up riding between 100 to 150 miles…
After 6 months of being off the chemo, I decided I needed to started back on it again.
Knowing that using a low dose methotrexate regimen is effective in controlling my psoriasis, I’m not so apprehensive about going back on it. Actually taking a break from it isn’t all that bad either.
Psoriasis is not curable and I’ll always have it – knowing that there is a treatment that does make it tolerable is a good thing.
Now to stay positive – I’m going to go ride tonight, even if it is for a half an hour (something is better than nothing). I’ve decided not to ride the Seattle to Portland this year, perhaps 2011, all depends.
My goals for this year:
1) Loose 40 lbs
2) Complete the conversion of my DVD collection to my home server
3) Repair and ready my trikes for the 2011 riding season
4) Ride at least 3000 miles this year will mostly be “self guided” tours around Oregon. Being on the chemo, I do have to be careful of who and what I’m around – don’t need to get sick!
Even though I’m not planning to ride in the Seattle to Porltand this year, that doesn’t mean I need to stay away from riding all together.
I have my Polar heart rate monitor working, all geared up, the trike mounted on the trainer ready to ride (honestly, it’s been ready to ride since August – just not have been in the mood).
At 221 lbs, I’m done and need to get moving – Monday here I come!
