[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #20349] Backup Implementation for OSGeo VMs (Update 2013-09-18: the server has arrived)

[Alex Mandel]

On 09/18/2013 04:36 PM, Martin Spott via RT wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 01:34:25PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
> 
>> I'm still discussing with my team if this should be ganeti based or just
>> direct OS on the metal.
> 
> A schema I've been successfully using on a couple of production
> machines on bare metal:
> 
> 1). Leave 10 MByte empty space (unused primary partition) at the
>     beginning of every physical harddisk to make room for hungry boot
>     loaders (to extend the embedding area).
> 2.) Create an MD physical RAID5 disk over all available disk space.
> 3.) Put an LVM2 volume group on top of that.
> 4.) Create volumes "boot" 256 MByte Ext2, "root" 20 GByte XFS, "swap"
>     whatever you like, "var" 20 GByte XFS.
> 5.) Use the remaining disk space for the particular purpose.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Martin.
> 

Emily see above for the specifics. Our preferred OS is Debian 7. You
should be able to copy our admin users public keys from any of our
running VMs.

Let us know if there are any questions.

Thanks,
Alex