There was a rather long moment of panic over the weekend during which
time I nearly lost the Gopher server. Well, not actually lost (as in
permanently) as I have backups, but the NUC holding the Gopher had a
BIOS problem. As I'd recently updated the Web server and my spare
backup SSD had arrived quickly I had a fine Clonezilla session and now
have a swappable disk for the WWW.
Flushed with success I decided to clone the Gopher server as well.
It's a rather old NUC and I somehow managed to get ito run Linux before
there was even official support from Intel. I've never updated the
BIOS because I was too afraid TBH.. Anyway, I eventually managed to
tweak the setup settings to allow a disk clone to take place, and
confidently did a powerdown followed by a reboot. Or not. To cut a
long story short it would not recognise either original or cloned SSDs
as boot devices.
Panic set in. I knew that my later NUCS would have no problem but I
didn't want to buy more hardware as the NUC was still working well. I
eventually ended up resetting all settings to factory defaults, and
made sure it wasn't booting from the UEFI partition. After a couple of
hours fiddling with settings, I eventually got the dratted thing to
boot and I was back on the road again.
Longer-term I will replace the original NUC, but for now, I have a
cloned SSD backup which makes me feel a lot safer!
