Long day at work. Spent most of the day applying patches. Famous Dave's for lunch, which was good. Then JoeBuck went to Caribou and bought everyone something. Then the fun stuff started... Avalon took a bit longer than expected, and almost freaked when I tried to remove the shares. It survived though and even shut down quickly (probably from effectively no writes since a full read of the filesystem). The new machine had some issues with it's video card, but those are resolved. The backup software also responds much quicker now. It doesn't seem like taking the server off NIS+/NFS should make that big of a difference, especially since it didn't really have a reason to look up stuff. Now we selected all the files for restore in about 5 minutes though rather than a day. Usonia2 apparently decided it needed to join in on the fun and threw a hard drive. Didn't even power them down, just started screeching about it. It was nice of it to wait until we had already scheduled an outage though, so it was quick work to replace that. Of course the replacement drive was previously part of a compatible array so the card got a bit confused and required some persuasion to not pick random SCSI numbers for the missing drive, but all is working now. Hopefully tomorrow it's just check on it a couple times to make sure the copy is still happening, and then Sunday just turn on the shares and we're set. Hopefully...