[Novalug] Welcome Back (PLEASE READ)

Chris Rogers chris@servercave.com
Sun Nov 5 14:50:04 EST 2006


We've got our disk arrays and Xen clusters online finally.  Happy to 
donate a bit of disk space for backups if needed.

mmmmmmm.... rsync....

Chris


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James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> First, let me thank everyone for their hard work and the free service 
> they are providing.
> 
> However, I wonder why it took two full months to restore a few mailing 
> lists. This makes Linux look bad.
> 
> Now I know the servers have other things on them, but some of them are 
> easily recovered, such as Linux Distros. Actually, placing mainstream 
> distros here is probably a bad idea given that the bandwith is way 
> slower than what you can find on distrowatch and other major download 
> sites. A much better service would be an updated list of distros and 
> mirrors, a catalog if you will.
> 
> The critical data, the mailing list should have been backed up nightly. 
> And when I say backed up, I mean rsync'ed to another disk, possibly on 
> another host. Likewise, the OS disk should be backed up by cloning, not 
> mirroring, so that it is possible to simply shift a few cables, maybe 
> change the master/slave jumper (or the SCSI id), maybe edit /etc/fstab, 
> maybe regrub or relilo.
> 
> In other words, design the system for disaster recovery.
> 
> Clearly, it is too late to do anything about the old system, but I would 
> implore the caretakers (sounds like something from Star Trek, doesn't 
> it?) to build in a bit of redundancy into the current system.
> 
> I can volunteer to help if needed.
> 
> JIM
> 
> gregory pryzby wrote:
> 
>> Novalug is back on the tux.org mailman list.
>> WHAT HAPPENED:
>> Sometime in August, gwyn.tux.org had a disk crash. The disk could not
>> safely be mounted, so it was taken off line. A few weeks ago, we were
>> able to get physical access to the disk and retrieve the information.
>> Once that was complete, the lists were moved to calypso.tux.org.
>> TEMPORARY SOLUTION:
>> I set up a group on googlegroups so we could communicate.
>>
>> NOW:
>> I merged the members of the googlegroups with tux.org.
>> WHY:
>> After asking the group, almost everyone who voiced an opinion wanted
>> to be back on tux and use mailman. You wish is granted.
>> FUTURE:
>> I will look at what needs to be done to remove the googlegroups stuff.
>> I will probably just set mail to forward from googlegroups to
>> calypso.tux.org for the time being though.
>>
>> I am also looking at how to restore the archives.
>>  
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