Not too good, on the short term..
We got the server back up yesterday, did a lot of upgrades in the hope this would beef up stability so I could get the backups done.
But damn, the vmware layer crashed again, taking the remote connection server down, so I'm back to being unable to connect.
I almost had one of the two backups done. If only it would survive one backup at a time, I could shut down te vmware layer while doing the upload, and then rinse and repeat for the next.
The server is planned to be relocated to Peter's house, so it can be rebooted as needed, but this cannot be done until April 5th, due to busy job schedules.
Still.. it may not even be stable long enough to get the backups done, so..
I'm also thinking of simply having the disks sent to me, but it may prove quite difficult running the vmware layer on disks connected to a different pc.
Or load the vmware site/forum image from the disks into a vmware workstation on a pc, but this may likewise prove problematic, due to age differences from the old unsupported vmware server to the current workstation version.
I'm going to have a chat with a dude I know who's a vmware expert. We'll see..
Not only is it most troublesome having the site/forum down for such a long time, but also outright Bad Timing (well, isn't it always..)
Seems I'm close to a new job, likely starting from April, and once again a fairly demanding one. Had a great relaxed interview yesterday, next up Monday.
When the job starts, I'll have to focus more on my sports than music, for keeping my mind sanitized and the body fit and avoid cracking up again
Yup, the depot will be up again, but things aren't looking smooth ATM..
