On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Martin Bagge / brother ([email protected]): >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 2012-01-24 07:25, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> > If we could find someonewanting to host a machine and eventually >> > donate one, we could imagine getting churro's disks to that person >> > and rebuild the service with it: new machine, new hosting...but still >> > the old content. >> >> What do we need? >> I got a machine just sitting around that got out of space for running a >> (amd64, i386) mirror. Not sure about the specs but it is well connected >> (Swedish University Network) and people at hand if something strange >> would happen. > > > What's needed is a reasonably fast machine (preferrably > i386|amd64). As churro was installed around 2006 and was at that time > a "good" standard machine, I think that anything more recent is fine. > > Disk space might be a concern as churro has a local mirror (can't > check numbers right now for obvious reasons, but IIRC disk space on > churro is not that gigantic). > > Memory should be something above 2Gb for performance reasons (again, > IIRC...to be checked on churro). > > And bandwidth is probably the most important : the more the better. > > As for network access, incoming mail, ssh (port 22), http and https > are needed. We need i18n.debian.net to point to the machine's public > IP. > > And, as you mention, a local, reliable person to contact in case of > problems is very obviously mandatory. > > This is roughly what I remember. > > The ideal situation would be duplicating churro disks to avoid a full > reinstall. > > Whatever happens to the current churro, having this handy as a > possible backup would be great. For that, we again need churro to be > back to life....and maybe this time have someone to investigate why it > got berzerk.
I am trying to do my best. I am 100 kms away from Churro today and my more local contact is in Brussels :)) Regards, César. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGUmGN5nm3ndQocRuiC7Hr82a1VZf7LBAeqY4EcPwww=Q9+=s...@mail.gmail.com
