Re: [Komport-devel] More hardware blues (host96).....

[Mike S. <mi...@sh...>]

Yeah, Steven, It's a very good point, and it's something I've been trying to 
ignore for far too long, yet I've allowed myself to loose sleep over it at 
the same time. Not just for Komport, but there are a few other projects (see 
http://sharkey.servebeer.com/~michael and there are also some not listed 
there) whose only existence on earth is on either sharkey.servebeer.com 
and/or host96. Actually (off topic), now that I'm mentioning those other 
projects, I'm hoping that some of your guys might want to help on some of 
those other projects next, but that's for another discussion at another time, 
we need to get Komport in the bag first......

Currently I do about a monthly backup on CD of projects and important things. 
I don't feel that it's enough but it's all I really have the capacity for, 
both in terms of time and machinery. I try to at least regularly mirror 
important stuff between at least two machines at all times in case of a hard 
drive failure. But certainly I must admit that it is far from ideal, and 
there is unquestionably room for improvement. 

I've been thinking about a mag tape. I have not looked into mag tape for 
probably about 6-8 years so any input would be welcome. The last mag tape 
drive I had was on a 368DX and it was a SCSI tape drive capable of 100MB of 
backup per tape. I know they have come a long way since then. :)

In any case, with respect to Komport, I think we should be sure to try and 
keep the most recent stuff checked into the repository at SourceForge for the 
time being.

Thanks Steven for bringing this to the front burner.

Oh, and Cheers All! :) 

Hope you all are having as nice of a lead in to Christmas as I am! :) 

--Mike


On Monday 15 December 2003 09:07 pm, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> Do you have a backup solution on host96, or should we all take care of
> our own stuff?
>
> SK
>
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 05:50, Mike Sharkey wrote:
> > ....Sorry guys if you've been trying to access host96. Since the power
> > failure several days ago, host96 was acting up and now finally quit due
> > to a power supply failure, and main board failure....I don't know which
> > failed first and presumably caused the other to fail, but I'm assuming
> > the power supply was the first to fail due to the recent power
> > fluctuations....but who really knows......
> >
> > In any case, I've ordered a new motherboard (TYAN S2466 TIGER MPX), this
> > is not a cheap main board. Hopefully the CPUs are still good, because if
> > not, this is gonna be a really expensive failure. Meanwhile host96 is up
> > and limping with a new 2GHz Celeron main board with 1GB of ram. All hard
> > discs are okay, and any work you have there should still be okay.
> >
> > I should have the new dual AMD Athlon (TYAN TIGER) board in about 3-4
> > days, after which I will be installing the new 2GHz Celeron board into
> > sharkey.servebeer.com to replace the aging but very reliable Tyan Tomcat
> > Dual P233 board.
> >
> > --Management
> > sharkey.servebeer.com
> >
> >
> >
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