Sad day for my NAS

[delonm]

Well, it was bound to happen I suppose. Yesterday I was copying a few files over to my NAS4Free server (Fujitsu MX130 S2 based). After about 8 gigs had been copied over, I decided to start up another copy stream. Dragged the file from the local folder to the NAS...and nothing. Locked up. :\

This has to be Karma as earlier in the day I was reviewing the nightly email report and thought "Cool! Only 6 more days until I reach 1 year of uptime!".

Doh!

I rebooted the box and all was back to normal.

This morning I see this in the email report:

System uptime:
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1:01AM up 6:27,

Only 364.5 days until I reach 1 year of uptime...

 

[CiPHER]

Who cares about uptime. Any system with that much uptime very likely means it is vulnerable to known security exploits. It is normal that servers reboot once in awhile for scheduled maintenance, to install security updates and such. Some of those updates (related to the kernel) require the system to be rebooted.

And one year is not all that much. There is a list of webservers with longest uptime, somewhere. Netcraft i think.