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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>
  • Cc: sm-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Admin] Getting things going again...
  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:41:29 -0700 (PDT)

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Adam Clark wrote:
<snip>
Now I've seen the suggestions and I think it would be a great idea to
have SMGL-purchased servers. I can see this taking some time though,
for a few reasons - a) pieces need to be purchased and assembled before
the system can even have an install done, b) financially, SMGL doesn't
have things in place yet (as far as I understand), and I'm sure other
factors as to where would really be a good place to host the system
could take some time as well.

We do have some funds (~$56, IIRC) from CafePress and we're looking at
applying for non-profit status (at least in the US) so that we can
take donations. Currently Jeremy has offered to front the cost and
then having our donations go to him to help pay it off.

<snip>
I would like to make the argument though that the location where things
are hosted based on who we have 'available' currently is moot, or should
be a very low priority. We've seen turnover at every level in the SMGL
organization, and it's entirely likely that whoever we may have admin an
SMGL server (or servers) at the physical level now, will probably not be
the same person or persons who's adminning it 6 months, or a year, or 3
years down the road. I agree we should have an organization that's got
an SLA, can replace bits for us, etc. But where we put servers based on
who's at what position in the SMGL structure should fall to a much lower
priority, imho.

While people do move around, several of the ones in the current area
in question have said that they'll continue servicing the server even
if they aren't part of SMGL. However, I do agree that location should
not be too big of a concern, but it is handy.

<snip>
I have a server available which has the following hardware:

- Tyan server board
- 2 x 1.2Ghz P3 Tualatin cpu's
- 1GB ECC RAM

It currently has 2 18GB SCSI drives in it, but space requirements are
much more, so was thinking of purchasing 2 200GB (or 160's, depending on
what's available today) IDE drives, using one of the SCSI drives as
boot/OS and the IDE drives as a software RAID 1'd setup.

Can this be setup ASAP with our backups restored? We do have some CafePress
funds if that will help with the purchase of the harddisks (and if other Leads
agree about using the money for that).

This system could be completely utilized for SMGL purposes, and could be
the basis on which other systems are slaved from. It could be up and
running within a few days, too.

Make it so, please. :)

Whether this setup is useful or not, I do strongly agree that whatever
path we go down there should be off-site backups (and not just at one
location), and if we could do it, have servers that can be set very
quickly as master systems in the case that the primary server goes down.

Unfortunately I didn't keep my off-site backups of the site current
either. ;/ We should probably look into the SQL server slaving/mirroring
for other sites so that all we have to do is switch them from slave to
master when needed.
<snip>

- -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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