Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

  The almost identical machine is fantastic.

  I've never used Norton Ghost but online doco indicates it can be
used to backup up Linux file systems.  Would you please explore?

  Thank you very much.  The thought of catastrophic machine failure is
a recurrent nightmare to me.  It would be great not to have to think
about it anymore.

- Jeremy


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Enyeart, Mike wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:27:57 -0500
> From: "Enyeart, Mike" 
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> To: 
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> Subject: [WG-PIC:123] RE: LS & proxy/registrar
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> I believe Norton Ghost works on Linux machines. (?)  I could Ghost the
> machine for you and I have another identical machine (except it may have
> a slightly different amount of memory) that we could fall back on.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy George 
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:14 PM
> To: 
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> Cc: Jeremy George
> Subject: [WG-PIC:108] LS & proxy/registrar
> 
> 
>   We're going to run the LS (location server) on ser.uits along with 
> the proxy/registrar.  We are, to coin a phrase, putting our eggs in one
> basket.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it does suggest that
> we'd be well advised to treat this machine carefully.
> 
>   On last Thursday's call Mike suggested we leave the server
> in Bloomington rather than submit it to the trip to Indianapolis.
> Although this means the server is located at a remote site, which makes
> me a little nervous, on balance it does make sense and appears to be
> the consensus of the folks I've spoken to.  The only caveat is that we
> really need to have someone in Bloomington that we can call on to at
> least power cycle the box.
> 
>   So, if 1) Mike, you can find someone to do power cycle duty and
> 2) no one expresses an objection, let's leave ser.uits where it is.
> 
>   Following on the theme of treating the box with care I think we ought
> to be prepared for disaster recovery.  Suppose we have a hard disk
> seize?  We need to be able to build a new ser.uits very quickly.
> 
>   Backing up ser.cfg is trivial.  I'll keep a copy on Tracy.  I'll also
> backup /var/lib/mysql, I guess at some regular interval.  I'll backup
> /usr/local/src and put the tar file on Tracy.  I don't know enough about
> the LS software to know what needs to be saved.  Ditto with registration
> and calendar related scripts.  Ben, can you do those?  Or tell me what
> needs to be saved and I'll keep those files on Tracy.
> 
>   What have I missed?
> 
>   To make this useful, we have to be able to materialize a machine
> possibly
> in short order.  In a disaster circumstance, can we do this?
> 
> - Jeremy
> 
> 

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