[SAC] Dedicated Backup System Quote

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http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Under Raid 5 this would provide 9 TB of backup space.

I tried to squeeze some more drives into the optical and front port
slots but only SSDs fit in there so I dropped the idea since those are
not long term reliable (I was going to use it for the OS).

Feedback?

Thanks,
Alex

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Interesting, I am glad to see this happening. (note that the OSGeo
Board approved $5k in this year's budget for a backup server)

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2013

-jeff

On 2013-08-21 2:55 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Under Raid 5 this would provide 9 TB of backup space.

I tried to squeeze some more drives into the optical and front port
slots but only SSDs fit in there so I dropped the idea since those are
not long term reliable (I was going to use it for the OS).

Feedback?

Thanks,
Alex

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Alex,

It looks good to me, and the price is quite reasonable. I’d encourage you to proceed after others have had a day to comment, working with Daniel on arranging payment.

Best regards,
Frank

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@wildintellect.com> wrote:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Under Raid 5 this would provide 9 TB of backup space.

I tried to squeeze some more drives into the optical and front port
slots but only SSDs fit in there so I dropped the idea since those are
not long term reliable (I was going to use it for the OS).

Feedback?

Thanks,
Alex

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:55:22AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Looks excellent, add an MD RAID5 plus LVM on top and you won't miss any
separate OS disk.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On 08/21/2013 11:28 AM, Martin Spott wrote:

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:55:22AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Looks excellent, add an MD RAID5 plus LVM on top and you won't miss any
separate OS disk.

Cheers,
  Martin.

Sounds like this works for everyone, so I'll run it by OSL to make sure
it's ok and then get the order taken care of.

Thanks,
Alex

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On 08/30/2013 12:00 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

On 08/21/2013 11:28 AM, Martin Spott wrote:

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:55:22AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/252860.pdf?confirmation=2068577495

Looks excellent, add an MD RAID5 plus LVM on top and you won't miss any
separate OS disk.

Cheers,
  Martin.

Sounds like this works for everyone, so I'll run it by OSL to make sure
it's ok and then get the order taken care of.

Thanks,
Alex
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Daniel made the purchase today. I expect to hear back from OSUOSL about
how to configure sometime next week, and hopefully it will be in place
and handling backups by the end of the month.

Thanks,
Alex