On 12/13/2013 01:33 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
What do you do for backups and long-term archives? How do you ensure that, for example, every user leaves their workstation turned on 24/7?
You have a point there, but this is different from what offers higher performance.
Personally, at work, I hibernate my Linux development machine when I leave for the night.
There are NFS mounts for home directories that I think are on Netapp machines. I use a local disk for much better performance. I have a cron job that ping-pong backs up parts of my tree to usually non-mounted volumes, and this is also on software raid 1. If my physical PC takes a bad hit that takes out both disks or software goes crazy, I will lose things, but all my real work is all under source code control, on a Perforce server in I-know-not-what timezone.
Because my machine is usually off, anacron is what fires off that backup when I do resume my machine. I don't know whether there is any anacron like way to backup a MS Windows PC when it is up.
As for others at my work, it seems every piece of equipment is on 24x7, monitors included. Maybe you would have better on-compliance with no notes at all.
Back to larger questions of how to best design a system for general purpose computing by mixed users...maybe Google Chrome makes more sense than I had been thinking. I have been reading that Microsoft is going through conniptions over Dell and HP looking like they are having a good time with new non-Microsoft machines.
-kb, the Kent who will have to look into AFS again. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
