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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • Cc: sm-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Admin] Getting things going again...
  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:51:44 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
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I think this would make sense if we weren't going with a dedicated hosted
box, but when we are going to have that it seems like the value would be
less. On a hosted box the worst case scenario is going to be a fried box;
replacing that would be a couple hours (at most) for the hosting center to
get a new box in place, then time for rebuilding the OS and restoring the
data from off-site backups (which will at least exist in my location,
anyone else that wants their own will be welcome to them). All told it
could take a day or two at most. I just don't know if it's worth the
effort to keep looking at a distributed system if we expect to have a
resilent enough primary. Either one would have addressed the current
outage, but I don't know that we need both.

The distributed system has several purpose:
1) If the main server goes out we have backups that can become masters
within an hour.

2) Distributing the load among mirrors.

3) Allowing widely spread out users to use a mirror which is closer to
them (and supposedly faster).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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