[Babase] Papio Server Expansion

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Mon Feb 11 17:25:27 EST 2008


Thanks for the summary Lacey. On a related note, our 3-year warranty  
will expire in four days. We have the option to renew for 2 more  
years, which we will do.

In response to Lacey's question, either Weds or Thursday afternoon  
would be fine for me for the server to be down.

Susan

On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Lacey Maryott wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>    I spoke with Hunter today about why our disc space is running  
> out. It looks like the db is just getting too big for what space we  
> currently have. So, Hunter is going to add 2 Seagate Ultra 320 10K  
> 73GB hard drives to the papio server which will be mirrored to  
> protect our data.  These are used hard drives which Hunter is  
> generously donating to our cause so to speak (Thank You very much  
> Hunter for your help on this). They were headed to the server  
> graveyard :-P so we rescued them.  Anyway, Hunter would like to try  
> to take the server down for 2 hours to do this maintenance. Two  
> potential times are Wednesday from 330-530 or Thursday from 230-430  
> or 330 to 530.  Tabby do you have any input on when you would  
> prefer for this to happen?
>    This will mean the db itself will end up being on the original  
> hard drives and that things like user accounts in the root  
> directory will just be moved to something like the srv or other  
> similar directories. While we will notice a slight partitioning of  
> where things are based on this, the database will be in the same  
> place.
>
> If anyone has any questions, please ask! Although Hunter or Karl  
> may be better able to field them than myself!
>
> Please do respond with what time would be best to pull down the db  
> for the maintenance so we can plan!
>
> Thanks!
> Lacey
>
> -- 
> Lacey Maryott
> Alberts Lab
> Department of Biology
> Duke University
> ph: 919-660-7306
> fax: 919-660-7293
> Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone  
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu



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