[SAC] New Backup Machine Configuration

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Feedback from OSUOSL:

Were you wanting to add this machine to your ganeti cluster using it for
more things other than backups? If so that shouldn't be a problem. Just
let me know what you'd like to do. If the box is just going to be for
backups I'm not sure how VMs will make things better.

So we have 2 options:
1. We can add it to ganeti, migrate the existing backup VM over then
grow it's dick.
2. We can just have them install the main OS and give us access to setup
bacula however we want. I do not know if there are any permissions
restrictions at this level.

Long term option 1 means we can use the machine in other ways besides
backups later on, not that we would, or as a failover for replicating
some live machines on osgeo3 and osgeo4 (not a bad idea).

Any opinions.

Only thing I have down is the initial OS will use MD to create a
software RAID 5 spanning all 4 disks.

Thanks,
Alex

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On 09/10/2013 07:53 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

Feedback from OSUOSL:

Were you wanting to add this machine to your ganeti cluster using it for
more things other than backups? If so that shouldn't be a problem. Just
let me know what you'd like to do. If the box is just going to be for
backups I'm not sure how VMs will make things better.

So we have 2 options:
1. We can add it to ganeti, migrate the existing backup VM over then
grow it's dick.
2. We can just have them install the main OS and give us access to setup
bacula however we want. I do not know if there are any permissions
restrictions at this level.

Long term option 1 means we can use the machine in other ways besides
backups later on, not that we would, or as a failover for replicating
some live machines on osgeo3 and osgeo4 (not a bad idea).

Any opinions.

Only thing I have down is the initial OS will use MD to create a
software RAID 5 spanning all 4 disks.

Thanks,
Alex

FYI, it's been delivered today. So any feedback on this would be very
useful.

Thanks,
Alex

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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:38:37AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:

FYI, it's been delivered today. So any feedback on this would be very
useful.

I think I've explained my opinion at least twice, thus no news from my
end.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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I herewith declare the new OSGeo backup system as being fully
functional. I'll add the details to the wiki later this weekend.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@mgras.net> wrote:

I herewith declare the new OSGeo backup system as being fully
functional. I'll add the details to the wiki later this weekend.

Great, thank you!

Markus

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While I was at it, I've added more machines to the Munin monitoring on
"webextra". I'll take care of adjusting the limits, if required.

Cheers,
  Martin.
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:

I herewith declare the new OSGeo backup system as being fully
functional. I'll add the details to the wiki later this weekend.

.... ah, well, two weekends later ....

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Backups#OS_installation

  Martin.
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