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One of our cronjob has to be executed at 23AM of each day. And it was programmed to be created file/folder name based on date value. I lost the 23AM of that day and no way to solve this problem.


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I'd like to have the following hard drive config:

2x18 GB 15k RPM in RAID1 for OS (CentOS 5.0)
3x36+ GB 10k RPM in RAID5 for data

However that drive config may suck a lot of power.

The server has 3x600w PSUs, however, if I keep it under 6 drives, I can set up the PSUs in a 1+1 configuration so I would only HAVE to have 1 PSU connected.

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