[SAC] Todo List

[Alex Mandel]

On 09/30/2011 02:08 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Alex Mandel
> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> Items 1-6 were all discussed in some way in Denver in bits and pieces.
>> Some of which were urgent, others of which the relevant admins happened to
>> be in the room.
> 
> Please post the minutes from Denver.
> 
There was no meeting, so there are no minutes. I walked around the code
sprint and talked to 1-3 people at a time when they came up for air.

The todo list was all the ideas collectively written down. We do have
the intention of holding a meeting in October on IRC - I'll take time
suggestions that work for everyone.

> ...
>> 5. Buy a dumb storage server (~$2000 for 8 TB, or 4 TB raid mirror) for
>> offsite backups to be hosted by Michael Smith in NH where the WMS
>> shootout servers live. Migrate the backup vm there, wholesale.
> 
> I am not much convinced that putting the backup device physically
> distant will work due to the large amount of data and network latency.
>
That's a good question. We should probably refine that by checking how
much data actually gets moved on a nightly basis. Offsite backup is
something of concern, as you may have noted with the recent power issues
we had in San Diego. I'll note the nightly rsync of the download server
to the backup server from San Diego to Oregon has not been a problem.

>> - Something to discuss, and then send to the board for approval. Technically
>> all the right people have agreed that this plan is feasible
> 
> Really? Who was that?
> 
Frank who runs the rsync backup of the download -> backup server and
Michael who has the physical rack it would go into (The idea can only
work if someone has a rack for such a machine). I realize now we weren't
thinking about Bacula at that point, so we'll need to see what Martin
thinks. Sure there are still details to work out, and that will be a big
topic at our next meeting TBD. Several others nodded that the idea of a
cheap large storage has been on the list of ideas since we bought the 2
machines at OSUOSL.

> curious,
> Markus