[Babase] Re: [Babaseannounce] Reminder: Papio Maintenance
Today
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Wed Feb 13 22:55:44 EST 2008
Hunter,
Thank you so much for your help on this! I will let Karl field your
questions
about the problems you encountered but I just wanted to say we appreciate your
quick response on this, and all of your help!!:)
Thanks!
Lacey
Quoting Hunter Matthews <thm at duke.edu>:
> Maintenance Complete.
>
> The 2 extra drives were added. A small problem is that the drives are
> 160MB/sec models, and not the 320's I would really have preferred to see
> - but they are the only ones I have access to at the moment AND they
> were mislabeled as 320's anyway. I will hunt around for some 320's.
>
> You should have LARGE amounts of excess postgres and scratch/srv space
> now.
>
> I did encounter a problem: the arch/tla tool that you are using creates
> HUGE NUMBERS of files - making backups and rsyncs very slow and painful.
>
> Is there any chance you could migrate to another tool, or conversely
> figure out if you can tar up old/rarely used parts of the repositories?
>
> Zillions of tiny files are hard on our backup system.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:51 -0500, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> This is a reminder to please be logged out of Papio by 3:30 today so
>> that Hunter can perform maintenance on the server!!! This includes not
>> only the database but the wiki, the programs, the documentation, and
>> everything else housed on the server. Everything should be back up and
>> running by 5:30, but the official finish time will be posted once Hunter
>> has finished.
>>
>> Thanks! :)
>> Lacey
>>
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