[RAS] nebka, further proceedings

[Bob Parks]

If IDEAS can not spare that drive soon, I can take down my machine and 
ship another 146 gig (which is used as temp on a large job and I am not 
currently running that)
but I would need it back, say in March.  Let me know, I can see about 
shipping it Monday.


The USB to IDE or SATA
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=USB2IDE-25-35&cpc=SCH
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTB&cpc=SCH
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cpc=SCH
I don't think there is any difference in the latter two, and I have used 
them on SATA drives (or similar, maybe not that exact same one).
You can also find cases at nearly the same price
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-62281&cat=CAS
Those are examples - I have purchased from geeks.com in the past.
Their inventory changes daily - two weeks ago, they had very few and I 
ordered from an ebay site which had low prices and high shipping.

Bob


Thomas Krichel wrote:

>
>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>
>  
>
>>Here is what I suggest once the backup is done:
>>
>>Tim, give ssh access back, so that we can check what happened.
>>
>>Ivan and/or Thomas, have a look at logs
>>
>>Thomas, slice up any rsync so that it does not synchronize large file 
>>structures. I strongly suspect that was the problem.
>>    
>>
>
>  I don't think that rsync was the problem. Do you have 
>  evidence that rsync causes machines to go down? Surely
>  last time it did, but the problem was not rsync.
>  the problem was JMBC shoehorning 100000 files into
>  a single directory. If you had transfered these with
>  ftp rather than with rsync, you would have gotten
>  the same trouble.
>
>  I hope that your theory is right that having large
>  directories is the problem. In that case, as you 
>  wrote, we need to get a larger disk.
>
>  Bob send you a disk for nebka. You diverted it to
>  IDEAS. Before we proceed, put that disk into nebka.
>  Or if you can't do that, go to the shop, buy a 
>  500 Gig PATA disk for $150 bucks. Then ask Bob,
>  he seems to  know about a device that can case
>  these disks and has a USB interface, connect via USB.
>  Buy that device, put the disk into it and hook it up
>  to the machine. We then move /home off to the new disk.
>  To move /var it is best to work in single user mode 
>  (second entry on the grub screen). We can do that
>  later in a scheduled downtime. 
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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