[RAS] nebka, further proceedings

[Christian Zimmermann]

I completely agree. The new machine should have been up by now, with a 
full backup of nebka, But being on campus only 4 days in the last six 
weeks did not help. I will do whatever is possible to get this done asap.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

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>  Christian Zimmermann writes
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>> Here is what I suggest once the backup is done:
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>> Tim, give ssh access back, so that we can check what happened.
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>> Ivan and/or Thomas, have a look at logs
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>> Thomas, slice up any rsync so that it does not synchronize large file
>> structures. I strongly suspect that was the problem.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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