[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] backup strategy for our servers

[Florian Pritz]

On 15.01.2012 06:29, Myra Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 18:06, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/01/12 06:05, Ionut Biru wrote:
>> >
>> > For that we need at least to rent a new server just for this job, maybe
>> > an atom server with lots of space.
>> >
>>
>> Don't we have an unused server tagged for backups already?
>>
>> Allan
>>
> Since I'm unable to post to the dev list I'll put this here. Before you
> rent an atom server I have an MSI atom (IIRC it's an atom 270) board with 1
> gig of memory, dual lan ports, dvi, vga, and 4 usb ports. It doesn't have
> any hard drives but would hold 5 hard drives. I'll have to check my power
> supply stock to see what I've got and test the board. It's been sitting in
> the closet for a while. If you're interested I'll check it out and the
> price is right -- trust me. Working as it sits with no power or drives
> paying for the shipping will get the box.

Thanks for the offer, but colocation is likely more expensive than
renting and it's also more work for us. Someone has to assemble the
server, bring it to the data centre, fix the hardware if it fails, ...

-- 
Florian Pritz

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