[tech] UCC backup status, was Re: Cron <backups at mollitz> /backups/bin/rdiff-manager/rdiff-manager.py (fwd)

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:25:34PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> >   * mollitz, an 8GiB DELL PowerEdge 2950, boots off a 60GB OCZ-VERTEX2 SSD
> [...]
> 
> ...or maybe it doesn't anymore.
> 
> Looks like it had an outage on 2020-07-20 , we noticed on 2020-07-27,
> and [TRS] made some headway into getting at its console up with:
> https://matthieu.yiptong.ca/2018/04/08/enabling-md5withrsa-in-newer-versions-of-java
> https://www.dell.com/community/PowerEdge-Hardware-General/DRAC-5-quot-Error-when-reading-from-SSL-socket-connection-quot/td-p/4762762
> 
> [TRS]: should I or someone pick it up and give it some working boot
> media again? When's good? Business hours-ish?

Yeah, I'm generally available 10am-4pm weekdays. I'd drop it off at UCC 
myself but CH isn't open to non-students/staff yet. Probably worth looking 
at popping in another drive, I think there's a bay spare?

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