Last weekend the cpu cooling of my server at hetzner died. I still don't know why - but during the crash the superblock of the root file system was destroyed :(. / was running on reiserfs and I started to recover the file system tree. More or less I could recover the most data of the system. But it was clear for me that I wouldn't deploy this partly broken system.

It was fully my fault that I hadn't backuped the system. Of course I'd daily backups of the virtual mail folders and all the important data, but the system itself was lost. So I decided to do a little expense and buy a second hard disk from hetzner. Now I run the system on SW raid 1. Further I switched from gentoo to debian as the HW is outdated and updating got a bit cumbersome.

I am also very proud of my discipline because I wrote some kind of documentation/howto of the server configuration. Feel free to get inspired. I also appreciate any response an what you can find there.