[143734] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How long is your rack?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Tue Aug 16 07:11:28 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Greg Ihnen <os10rules@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:11:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <A5D7768C-0702-44F6-89B1-567E86054F98@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ihnen [mailto:os10rules@gmail.com]
> Sent: 16 August 2011 11:57
> To: Leigh Porter
> Cc: Bryan Irvine; Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX); nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: How long is your rack?
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> On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
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> >
> >
> >> -----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?
> >>
> >> 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 ...
> >>>
> >>> 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=20terminal
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> OK, you've piqued my interest. What use have you found for Plan 9?
> >>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Leigh Porter
> >
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> 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.
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> Greg
I actually used S3 for a while and it was pretty good. I just need a singl=
e off-site backup dump.
What do people use to automatically sync windows/mac/Linux desktops to som=
ething? I am using sugarsync at the moment, I would rather do something my=
self to sync say whenever I connect to my home network to a home server.
--
Leigh
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