[143733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How long is your rack?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ihnen)
Tue Aug 16 06:57:25 2011
From: Greg Ihnen <os10rules@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D181DDABABE57E4DB72FEE003314786438D360@EALPO1.ukbroadband.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:25:48 -0430
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
>=20
>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bryan Irvine [mailto:sparctacus@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 15 August 2011 17:42
>> To: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: How long is your rack?
>>=20
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
>> <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>>> I hope someone will explain the operational relevance
>>> of this ...
>>>=20
>>> Sun V100 FreeBSD firewall/border gateway
>>> Sun V100 Plan 9 kernel porting test bed
>>> Sun V100 OpenBSD build/test/port box
>>> Intel 8-core Solaris fileserver and zones host
>>> AMDx4 Random OS workstation crash box
>>> Epia-EK Plan 9 terminal
>>> MacBook x Snow Leopard build/test host
>>> Intel-mumble-ITX Win2K8.2 development host
>>> Supermicro XLS7A Plan 9 File server
>>> Supermicro XLS7A Plan 9 CPU/Auth server
>>> Sun V100 Oracle (blech) new-Solaris test/porting box
>>> Sun V100 crashbox for *BSD firewall failover tests
>>> Sun V100 *BSD ham radio stuff, plus Plan9 terminal
>>> kernal testing.
>>=20
>> OK, you've piqued my interest. What use have you found for Plan 9?
>>=20
>=20
> How do you guys find time for all this? I used to have a couple of =
racks of boxes in the basement, then I got married, had three kids and =
started a Theology PhD program.. Now anything I do at home is purely =
practical.
>=20
> I took on some ideas for backup though, so I am sorting out a =
backblaze account and using Randy's fantastic sync thing that he =
mentioned. I really do not want 18 months of research to vanish.
>=20
>=20
> --
> Leigh Porter
>=20
One thing about Backblaze is they don't have redundant sites. They have =
only one facility so if a giant meteor takes it out your data is gone. =
Amazon's S3 is the way to go for data that matters.
Greg
