[Babase] Papio Server Expansion

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Feb 11 17:13:28 EST 2008


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

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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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