[SAC] OSGeo Budget and SAC

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Feb 6 15:49:30 EST 2012


On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> The other major option we've discussed in the past is a large file server
> for storing the backups instead of the current Backup VM. Which would give
> us greater flexibility to store backups for longer and to backup more things
> (which is debatable).
>
> Having recently bought (in my research lab) an 8 core, 64 GB RAM, 9 TB
> server for just under $5000 - that budget is plenty adequate.

Alex,

Have a storage server that would, among other things, take
on the backup role, and give us a place to dump VM snapshots
sounds like a great idea to me.

Best regards,
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