All restores have been completed and everything should be fully functional again.

xeonsrv [e]# df -h | egrep "^File|/e"
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/twed0     552G    221G    326G    40%    /e
/dev/da0s1g     42G     12G     30G    29%    /e/systems
/dev/ad0s1d    144G    142G    1.0G    99%    /e/storage1
/dev/ad2       184G    4.0K    169G     0%    /e/storage2

The raid array on which this website is placed is in the progress of being upgrade. Currently it’s a 4x80GB RAID-5 array. When all the work is done, it will be 4x200GB in RAID-5. Right now, I’m busy with backing up the current array (on a spare 200GB disk plus some other disks ). Tomorrow this machine will go down for some hours when I do the final restore on the new raid array.

I’ve created a small script that can create generic tcp proxies using netcat. Check the software page for more information.

Due to a major outage at the transit provider BBnet, r3blog and the sites it hosts were down for about 2 days. Sorry bout that. Furthermore, the ip address of this machine will change in the near future, which will cause another period of downtime (1 day max) due to dns cacheing which needs to be updated.

I’ve just updated my anti-spam setup. After reading this howto about some guy’s 1M+/d mailserver setup, I replaced spamassasin with bogofilter and qsf working cooperatively. Both train each other, and only if both tag a mail as spam, it get’s filed as spam. In the process I’ve reduced the TTL of an email in my server from 30+ secs to 1~2 secs. Talking about a speed increase

In other news, I’ve created a new forum for my girlfriend’s website. Based on the simplemachines forum, which is the successor of YaBB, it provides us with enough features, speed and comfort to use it. Let’s hope that one day we’ll get just as famous as Gathering of Tweakers