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

[Myra Nelson]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 03:31, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:

> 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
>
>
You're welcome and I fully understand.

Myra

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