Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon,  4 Jan 2021 11:29:23 -0500 (EST), Robert Heller
<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

>e[234]fs seems to be a generally fairly robust file system.

Mine is ext4, is that what you refer to?

It did repair using fsck, although I had to hook up a physical VGA
monitor and a keyboard to be able to get to the on-boot dialog.

>The OP should consider getting a UPS (at least) and possibly think about 
>implement a software RAID mirror set.  With a good UPS and the proper UPS 
>deamon software, the system should be able to manage a clean shutdown in the 
>event of a power failure.

I thought of the UPS and located a few candidates in on-line stores,
but when I examined these it looked like they were not in stock and
then going further to the manufacturer they were discontinued
products....
So I was left with no decently sized/priced product to use...

I have a related question:

My *server* (no GUI installed) is running on an eMachine E1352 mini
tower with an AMD CPU, which is quite old (from 2010)...

Is there a way to move the system over to a newer hardware platform
without creating everything from scratch?

Can I just insert the disk in another PC and start it up and it will
find the things that need modification?

Or do I have to somehow re-create the entire installation on new
hardware? Or is there some middle way?

I can see these issues:
- CPU does not match (do I have to get a PC with AMD CPU?)
- BIOS does not match (probably not an issue)
- Network adapter MAC address does not match (should only affect 
  the IP it gets by DHCP, right?
- Disk not recognized (I think an ext4 drive would be OK)

This is what I run on the server:
- OpenVPN server
- Apache webserver with https certs handled by certbot
- Subversion server with a 15 GB repository
- Video server (mini-dlna) for video streaming locally
- more I have forgotten now



-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden