[tech] new moray

[David Manchester]

At 5:32 PM 18/11/99, Nick Bannon wrote:

>> Does anyone have any recommendations for a schedule to cut over NFS to
>>my I2..?
>
>Yeesh. Only that we be monumentally slow and careful. No matter which
>way you cut it, it concerns me to have the only copy of home directories
>and mail on a user machine - and your box is too well spec'ed not to be
>a user machine.

Indeed... so we put a tape drive on it... like yours.
I'll be all good... IRIX has some kewl backup stuff... or we could
compile Amanda or some shizz, if we need it cross-platform.

>Do you want to set it up as a user machine and NFS client first?

Well, if we do that, then we can bolt a disk onto it and move everything
across network...

>> i.e. IRIX doesn't grok UFS... so we'll need to move the data off the disks,
>> make XFS filesystems upon them, and move the data back.
>> Irix will tentatively talk to an Exabyte... which'll be slightly
>> faster/more reliable than a DAT. /home will fit on an Exabyte.
>> Failing that, can anyone score a DLT for an evening.. or a spare 18GB SCSI
>> disk..?

>I don't know why Irix would be picky about which SCSI tape drives it
>talks to... but yes I can lend us a DLT. (which will be nice, fast and
>big enough to do the whole lot in one go)

Think st.conf in Solaris, but worse... its much more icky.
... but yes, DLT will let us do it in one fell swoop.

I'd prefer moving NFS to it first, then making it comfortable for
users before we let them loose on it.

Cheers
/dave

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