[Babase] Papio Server Work Scheduled for Fri Jun 5

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Fri Jun 5 17:49:23 EDT 2009


Thanks Karl and Ryan, your efforts and input are very much appreciated  
and it's great to be online with new disks.

Susan

On Jun 5, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

>
> On 06/05/2009 12:52:08 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> On 06/05/2009 11:50:32 AM, Ryan Hardy wrote:
>
>>> Karl, please take a look and let me know if you're happy with  
>>> that.  There are still about 20GB left we can use towards growing  
>>> a filesystem, if you want to.
>> I believe I see a problem.  Let's have a phone conversation.
>> I tried calling but got no answer.  I'll send my number
>> under separate cover.
>
> Ryan just explained his setup to me and everything looks
> good.  Lacey has checked out the data side so that looks
> good too.
>
> I'll do the Mdate update now and after that we'll be back
> in business.  The disks should be much faster.  I'd be
> interested in knowing if/how much it makes a difference
> in the real world.
>
> For the record, the result of my conversation with Ryan
> was:
>
> Our utilization of the disks is not 100% optimal, in that
> should we need more disk space than we're using now we
> might not get the absolute best performance.  However,
> we are setup for optimal performance now and will probably
> wind up getting new hardware or software upgrades
> before we need more disk space.  At that point we
> can re-work the disk utilization if necessary.
>
> I asked Ryan to email us with information about
> the Duke backup system, but as I write this
> I'm not sure we need any further information.
> The "new" system retains 6 months of daily backups.
> Worst case (fire or something) it could take a couple
> of days to get a backup restored.  Backups are to
> tape.
>
> FYI, we can lose a disk and stay running, albeit with
> reduced performance.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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