Performing OS maintenance patching on my music streaming and music relay servers. One server is running Linux Fedora and the other is running the application and database for the music I play along with hosting the music files.
Will be rebooting and then bringing the servers right back up after the patching and verification services are running.
Well I’m back on my original streaming server. Since June 29th 2013 I have been on my backup server working great to give my primary music server a break in a sense. Well with the power supply going out on my backup server I decided to bring up my primary music server after getting my backup server going again with the new power supply, then transfer the current up to date database and settings back to my primary server.
This could not be standard or simple of course. After updating my physical music tracks from the backup to the primary server I tried backing up the database and settings from SAM Broadcaster but that failed with a permissions error. I then went to MySQL Workbench to try and export the SAM database but ran into the “mysqldump.exe is version 5.5.16” will not work with version 5.6.10 of MySQL Server since the log files will be a different version of mysqldump.exe. I’m using MySQL Workbench version 5.2CE.
To correct the MySQL problem with the different mysqldump.exe versions I had to go to MySQL Workbench -> Edit -> Preferences ->Administrator -> “Path to mysqldump Tool” -> <Browse to $PATH:MySQL\ bin\mysqldump.exe”>. I then dumped that to and SQL file and copied it to my primary music server, forwarded my ports from my router back to my primary music server, started SAM broadcaster on my primary server, went to the config file on my Linux web server and pointed to my primary music server again, reinstalled RemoteWeb that syncs database tables from music server to web server as well as ftp my album files to my web server and I was done!
Phew what crazy stuff!
Some pics first of failed power supply from backup primary server, second pictures of hastily modified internals of system after replacing power supply, third picture and last back of music server showing power cable routing.
I updated the streaming media software to the latest version and had a brief outage of perhaps 6 or 7 minutes when I anticipated 3 – 5 minutes. Mainly one of the dynamic libraries that provide connectivity to MySQL would not release so I had to do a full system reboot even after shutting down MySQL.
