[committee] Disks for backups box

[Andrew Adamson]

Sorry, I should have made that more clear. In the box we have in the arts 
server room (a Dell 2950 called mollitz).

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

|"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
| ---Peter's Laws                                                        |

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, blackknight at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au wrote:

> The next scheduled committee meeting is next Tuesday, the 3rd of July.
> 
> Subject to a check of the bank balances, I'm happy for disks to be purchased.
> Where are you planning to keep them?
> 
> Dylan
> blackknight at ucc
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: committee-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:committee-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Adamson
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2012 3:12 PM
> To: Anil Sharma
> Cc: Ash Tyndall; committee at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [committee] Disks for backups box
> 
> Correct in this instance, but only because we had some independent storage of the backups within the machine room. Now that some stuff is on the SAN, we have no independent device to put the backups on (at least not until the FAS is setup properly for home dirs). 
> 
> Offsite backups are something that we've been needing to do anyway, so now seems like a good time to do it since we're looking at the backups setup anyway.
> 
> Andrew Adamson
> bob at ucc.asn.au
> 
> |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
> | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Anil Sharma wrote:
> 
> > Offsite backups wouldn't be any better than onsite backups for this current crisis.
> > 
> > Unless all the machines in UCC were destroyed without me noticing?
> > 
> > On 27/06/2012, at 3:53 AM, Ash Tyndall <atyndall at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> > 
> >       Buy! Buy! Buy!
> > 
> >       On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Andrew Adamson <bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> >             Hi guys,
> > 
> >             Remember last year when we tried getting offsite backups working but the
> >             server didn't like the disks we got? Well I think the time is ripe to have
> >             another go at this, given how relevant our backups are at the moment. If
> >             you have a look at the agenda for the next meeting, you will see I want to
> >             get 3x2TB disks (good quality ones) for a total of $597.
> > 
> >             I would appreciate if we could purchase and install these before the next
> >             wheel meeting (July 8) so that we've got reliable backups by that time.
> >             Could this be approved via email outside of a meeting?
> > 
> >             Andrew Adamson
> >             bob at ucc.asn.au
> > 
> >             |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
> >             | ---Peter's Laws                                                        
> > |
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Ash Tyndall [ASH]UCC OCM 2012
> > 
> > 
> > 
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