[volunteergrid2-l] Cinbad-jharris going off the grid ... the sad tale

[Shawn Willden]

Also, you might consider technology to improve uptime.  Perhaps installing a
RAID array (even just mirroring), adding a UPS configured to do a clean
shutdown before running completely down, with BIOS configuration to
auto-restart when the power comes back, etc.

With some work it's even possible to set up a cheap SSD-based system (e.g.
CF card) that is basically guaranteed to boot at least far enough that you
can SSH in, even if the spinning storage dies.

And, of course, you could go whole hog with redundant power supplies, or
even a full warm/hot standby system with automatic replication and failover
;-)

Anyway, as I said before, I trust your judgment on what makes sense.  To me,
the real purpose of the uptime requirement isn't so much to really ensure
all of our servers have at least X% uptime, it's to ensure that the people
operating them _care_ about uptime.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jody,
>
> What exactly does "stronger restraints on my traveling freedom" mean? If it
> means that you can never get there, then I would say leave it down.  If you
> won't be able to get there until a weekend, then maybe that isn't so bad.
>  Like Shawn, I trust your judgement.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 8/25/2011 8:16 AM, Jody Harris wrote:
>
>> So, I set up a System76 Meerkat Ion Desktop at my Mother-in-law's house
>> in November as a node in the grid that existed before we started
>> VolunteerGrid2. At the time, my job allowed me to be an hour from
>> Carlsbad to easily visit the physical location in a worst-case hardware
>> failure.
>>
>> Two weeks ago the hard drive failed, but three weeks ago, I started a
>> new job which puts me much further out of pocket and with much stronger
>> restraints on my traveling freedom during the week.
>>
>> I'm going to be talking to System76 about a replacement drive or picking
>> one up locally this week, but I hesitate to put "Cinbad" back on the
>> grid without bringing it up on the list for discussion.
>>
>> What are the thoughts of the members on this situation? I know that
>> Cinbad has already violated our stated up-time policy by two orders of
>> magnitude.
>>
>> jody
>> ----
>> - Think carefully.
>>
>>
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Shawn
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