Hello world!
My server suffered a complete hard drive failure, and I didn’t have a backup of the SQL database, which included all my blog posts. Oh well.
I hadn’t backed up my dpkg list, either, so reinstallation of all the services was a bit of a nightmare. (mysql and postfix somehow ended up switching uid’s, which played mayhem on the existing config files.)
Everything seems to be back to normal now, though. I have now implemented MySQL backups and performing a “dpkg –get-selections” to a remote site, nightly. This should shorten the recovery time should a failure like this occur again.