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> Is it broken?, Does this BBS need some help?
Brad Roberts
post Oct 8 2003, 10:25 PM
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The BBS is backed up.. the pics and such are not. But the entire site currently resides on several hard drives. One can fail but no single HD has all the info. Tape backup would be nice..

Anyone with an old "NetApp" we could use ?? 1 terybyte should be enough.



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post Oct 8 2003, 10:27 PM
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Hey fellas, I don't like to toot my own horn much but I'm pretty unix savy and I'd recommend a FreeBSD OS or Solaris on a SPARC or INTEL platform. Redhat and the like I believe are a bad choice for servers due to their "desktop" aim. FreeBSD is the bomb though, Apple based OS X on it and Juniper bases their router OS on it.

I have a great deal of experience with both and would be happy to donate some time; unfortunately I can't until after my wedding (11/15). I would also be willing to donate a Sun Ultra 1, though that is a rather limited box I will say. It is limited in disk capacity (only holdes 2 or possibly 3) and I think it has 256MB RAM, I don't know how much disk space you need - I only have a 9GB drive in it now.

Just my two cents.
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post Oct 8 2003, 10:36 PM
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we do frequent backups of the database and web-root (which has the pics etc.).
plus, the server runs a raid-array with all harddrives mirrored ...
soooo, if one burns out (which has happened), it'll just rebuild from the mirror.

i think we're good there, but if we move to a new box, we might want to do a tape-backup. we won't need much GB for that. anyone with a DAT drive sitting on the shelf?

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post Oct 8 2003, 10:36 PM
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I forgot to mention something key....


Windows blows.


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post Oct 8 2003, 11:01 PM
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How much space does the site take? GBs?
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post Oct 8 2003, 11:08 PM
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Maybe 1 gig if your lucky. Locking down the size of the pics has helped keep the site small.



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post Oct 8 2003, 11:21 PM
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QUOTE(Brad Roberts @ Oct 8 2003, 09:08 PM)
Maybe 1 gig if your lucky. Locking down the size of the pics has helped keep the site small.



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Soooooooooooo...................

What kind of hard drives are you looking for?

I have a some SCSI drives I'm not using, because they are too noisy. An IBM 9 gig DDYS (10K rpm) 80 pin (I have a 68-80 pin converter), a 9 gig IBM DMVS, and a 4 gig Seagate Cheetah (10K rpm). The 10K drives need a fan, they get hot.
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post Oct 8 2003, 11:22 PM
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I wish i spoke this language.

Yeah, it's all Greek to me too.
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post Oct 8 2003, 11:39 PM
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actually, i have a couple of 9GB SCSI harddrives too.

B., does your box have a SCSI controller?
if not, i think i have a card here somewhere.

hmmmm, 2 x 9GB should be more than enough ...
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post Oct 8 2003, 11:47 PM
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It does have a Adaptec SCSI controller. It was a SCSI box. I'll buy a new HD.

I did like the Cheetah 10k RPM HD's in the past..



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post Oct 9 2003, 10:23 AM
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QUOTE(Brad Roberts @ Oct 8 2003, 10:47 PM)
I'll buy a new HD.
I did like the Cheetah 10k RPM HD's in the past..

alright. those suckers are CHEAP these days ...
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post Oct 9 2003, 02:44 PM
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Hi,
I sure wish I knew what the hell you all are talking about! But then again who gives a rats ass. I'm just thankful for this bbs. You guys do a great job. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Keep up the good work. Thanks from someone who is just about totally computer ignorant!!
Cheers, Elliot
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post Oct 9 2003, 03:12 PM
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alright, Fiid just stopped by for lunch and dropped off the redhat CDs ...

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post Oct 9 2003, 03:27 PM
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I just bought a 20Gb drive Ultra-wide SCSI disk on ebay. I could pick up another couple and donate. I also have an 8mm Tape drive - I'm not sure if it's working right, but it will baqck up 11Gb compressed and is in an external enlosure. I'll donate that too.

I'm not sure we are going to gain much between linux, freebsd and solaris at this point - In my opinion the jump between Windows and any unix is huge enough and will make by far the biggest difference. A server install of redhat is no worse than freebsd. Lets spare Andy and Brad having firther discussion and see what hardware we can get together.
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post Oct 9 2003, 03:29 PM
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I should add that I will test the tape drive first. It doesn't sound like we need extra disk.

Andy - I'll look into the backup problem we talked about. And no worries on the CDs.

FIid the repeat poster.
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post Oct 10 2003, 12:02 AM
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Ok. New 18 gig Cheetah Seagate on the way. Will be here Friday night and we will get everything installed on the "new to us" box and see if we can blow this mutha up. It was 138$ for the new drive. 36gig drive was 178$. Since this is a SCSI box.. we can ad 3-4 more drives off the Adaptec HD.


I wanted to thank "P" for offering to host it for us. I just really dont want to burden anyone with this monkey.


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post Oct 10 2003, 08:45 AM
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Scsi owns, Probably wont make much difference here...yet... but it is hella cool to have!


My new box I ordered/leased is a dual 2.4 Xeon, 1GB ram, 2x 36.4 RAID 1, Dual 10/100/1000. Combine that with seperate VLAN, 750GB/month transfer limit, SLA, good reporting/monitoring/filtering, and the fact that it is a local company and I couldnt justify building my own and grabbing a rack or 1/3 and setting up everything else myself (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Having your own cage is cool though.
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post Oct 10 2003, 11:04 AM
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I added up how many servers I have rack mounted in colo facilities and it came close to 500. I even did build outs in the UK at Exodus before they tanked. I miss the colo days and installs.



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post Oct 10 2003, 11:16 AM
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QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Oct 9 2003, 03:44 PM)
Hi,
    I sure wish I knew what the hell you all are talking about!  But then again who gives a rats ass.  I'm just thankful for this bbs.  You guys do a great job.   (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Keep up the good work.  Thanks from someone who is just about totally computer ignorant!!
       Cheers,    Elliot

Amen!

I've played quite a bit with Linux, but I'm not a systems administrator or anything. And even though I did buy my 914 before I ran into this place, I wouldn't feel nearly as secure in the fact that I WILL have it put back together without this place being here. You guys collectively rock, especially the ones making sure the board runs so that so many people can contribute their wealth of knowledge.

cheers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Oct 14 2003, 11:21 AM
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server was down again. same old. PHP crashes IIS, grrrr ....

now if brad would just give me the new box and let me install linux on it.
but no, the guy wants to do everything himself. jeeeze.
oh well, we might have it running for the 1st anniversary of the BBS. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

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