[tech] the aftermath

[Paul Day]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> At certain points during the day it was feared that both meito's
> disks had died horrible deaths, which proved quite distressing
> without a backup. (Even RAID1 wasn't enough to save them). Turns out
> it was the motherboards' at fault, but it still raises the question
> of backups at UCC... do we need a plan?

Old PC with a couple of cheap 120GB IDE drives, somewhere _other_ than UCC
(ie, elsewhere on campus or colo-ed somewhere on WAIX for free) doing an
rsync at 4am each morning?

PD

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