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Astarte was one of my servers from around 2003 to about 2014. Her last build was in 2009, when she became my primary webserver web server (serving wwwwwww.edegan.com). I pulled her out of storage in September 2020 to recover the data on her wiki and merge it with my current wiki. This page documents that effort, in case others would like information on how to recover data from an old installation of mediawiki MediaWiki on an obsolete Linux box.

I pulled her out of storage, plugged her in, and turned her on. She threw a CMOS error but then booted fine! She picked up a DNS DHCP address and connected to the interwebs. Various attempts at automatic updates then failed, likely because her OS is obsolete. Most crucially, all of her daemons came up fine too. Her webserver was immediately available on both localhost and her DNS DHCP assigned IP, and I could SSH onto her.