[wplug-internet] Final backup of old Linode made, old Linode deleted

[Pat Barron]

I could not find a way to get into "true" single-user mode on the old 
Linode, so I did these things:

 1. Log in to console via Lish.
 2. Run "init S" to set run level to single-user.
 3. Run the appropriate rc.d scripts to stop all the services (e-mail,
    MySQL, httpd, etc.)
 4. Did a level 0 dump of the filesystem to a VM on my home system.
 5. Verified that the level 0 dump could be completely extracted on my
    home system.
 6. Wrote the level 0 dump (split into 2 gigabyte segments) to a USB
    flash drive.
 7. Deleted the old Linode.

Upon deleting the Linode, a credit of $5.34 was applied to our account.

I will probably also write the segments of the dump file out to DVD-Rs 
as well, which we can physically store somewhere, and which I assume 
should be readable for at least 10 years (my confidence is not high that 
a USB flash drive would remain readable for that long).

--Pat.
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