On Saturday 26 September 2020 13:10:14 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:54:46 -0500 > > Dave Sherohman <[email protected]> wrote: > > But now we want to terminate th[e law school] contract and > > start handling backups ourselves, within the library's own IT group, > > which will remove both TSM and the law school from the picture > > entirely. > > So this is a "green field" installation as far as backup gear goes: > backup servers, tape drives or hard drives for vtapes, network > enhancements, etc., as needed. I have no doubt this crew can advise > you well on all of that. > > However, paranoids live longer. Do not terminate your contract with > the law school until you are getting good backups locally of > everything you want to back up. > > And a thought that probably does not sit well with the typical library > budget: If necessary, spend the money to get good kit. It will save > you trouble (and hence money) in the long run.
I'll second and third that. Start with an Asus motherboard, something you can stick in a locked closet with a UPS and forget 6 months or more at a time. This machine has an Asus x-370 mobo and a 6 core i5 with 32Gigs of ram, current uptime is 53 days. I do literally everything on this machine. And it feels as if it will do 453 days just as easily if some kernel/security update doesn't need a reboot before then. Good quality hardware Just Works. I'm hearing Seagate getting bad mouthed, but that has not been my experience. And while I'd recommend spinning rust for the amandatapes drive if you go that way, I'd also recommend an SSD for the backup machines boot drive and OS, I am using several in the 120 to 240 gig size range in my cnc machines with zero problems in the last 2 years. Boot time is cut by 2/3rds, and noticeably faster than spinning rust. Spinning rust for /amandatapes use because thats buckets cheaper than a multiterabyte SSD raid array would be. My $0.02, but adjust for inflation since 1934. ;-) Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
