Recommended annual maintenance for xserve/xraid

hello everyone,
i'm coming up on the one year mark for our company's xserve/xraid which serves as a file server and publishing database (mei/k4) for the campus newspaper at NU. really it's been working splendidly, but just recently having come over from os9 (it's publishing people!) i'm ignorant of what annual maintenance is appropriate for the xserve/xraid/osx server in terms of running disk warrior/repair permissions/etc OR should i just let everything be? i'm used to performing a major tune-up every quarter!
osx 10.4.11, server HDs are mirrored and the Xraid is raid 5.
thanks for the advice!
ez chris

Completely agree with the concept, unless the security updates are relevant to your services and your servers are facing the Internet (like web/email/ssh, etc.).
That's for sure - although relevant security updates certainly falls in the 'broke' category and worth a reboot unless you can work around it another way. In my case, though, most of my servers are running custom Java applications and Java updates are the ones that I'm most interested in.
Camelot. Not to hijack the thread to ask something unrelated, but in an old thread you mentioned having some Xserve G5 hw raid cards available. Is that still the case? Am very interested...
Sure. email me - camelot at mac.com

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