[lopsa-discuss] Monitoring Sucks!

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Graydon
John Vincent (@lusis), like a sizeable number of people is convinced that Monitoring Sucks. I wholeheartedly agree and I don't think I've found a sysadmin yet who would beg to differ. Every tool out there has its pros and cons, often designed to resolve a particular con of another tool, howeve

[lopsa-discuss] Looking for a lightttpd expert for a consulting gig, to review a web developer's setup.

2011-07-21 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I'm looking for a lighttpd expert for a consulting gig for my practice, just thought I'd check if there is one in this group. Just need somebody who knows lighttpd well enough to advise my web developer client, he's about to go live and wants "a sysadmin expert" to double check his setup, mak

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade
On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > On 21 July 2011 15:22, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > What about either: > -an internet backup provider (yeah, yeah, "in the cloud") > > Sure, soon as you can get fibre to the home in Ireland (you *can* in some > very select places under a pilot scheme

[lopsa-discuss] looking for an Oracle DBA in the San Fran area

2011-07-21 Thread Tom Perrine
I have a friend in the San Fran area who is looking for a mid to senior Oracle DBA. This is a permanent position, but could start as a consultant if someone wants to start that way. Please pass this along and have anyone interested send me an email... --tep __

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread david
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Chris Ess wrote: On 21 July 2011 15:29, Chris Ess mailto:ca...@ithiriel.com>> wrote: This is true of any physical backup mechanism though. Whether it's drives, tapes, etc., it will be an added expense and off-site storage will be an additional hassle. Yes, th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:09:14PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > The upper-middle part of the screen should be at eye level, so most of > the screen is level with your eye line or slightly down. Otherwise > you need to tilt your head back to look up, which is unnatural and > causes neck strain. Hu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Joseph Kern
Standing desk user (well ... not anymore ... new job and all), I loved mine. I had a GeekDesk Max. http://www.geekdesk.com/ On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > I'm going to agree with Claire. I switched to a standing desk, and I > am amazed. I was convinced that I wouldn't li

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Craig Miskell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/07/11 09:38, Weiner Larry wrote: > When you wake up in the morning, use a towel to help stretch your > hamstrings. Hold the towel with both hands and have the sole of your > foot plus your heel held by the towel. With your leg extended all the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Anton Cohen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > Backup-to-cloud (well, backup-to-my-own-server-in-germany to start with) > over 8Mb/s ADSL would work for incrementals (mostly - some days I can be > adding a gig or two in HD video, and I can see days where I could add ten > times that), but

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
I used to do tape backup at homestarted with a QIC-150, later used 250's in it(think I got to where I was doing ~10 each weekend.) then 2GB DATs, then DLT4000, DLT7000 (my C drive was one tape, and then the rest eventually taking 9 more tapes)I looked at LTO1, but never scored a working

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Harvey Rothenberg
Chris and Mark, Let me state up-front, that I have nothing to gain from asking this question other than trying to bring this observation to light about what I am watching happen here in the US and the Midwest. Also do not forget that, what you wish to backup and how much there is of this data w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: [...] > #3: adjust the keyboard and monitor height. > >   For me, the keyboard on lap typing position is perfect.  But that's >   about the wrists, and you are asking about the back.   Monitor position >   is key for that.   I try to keep t

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mason Turner
I haven't looked at this in depth, but crash plan looks interesting. You could theoretically put the backup NAS at a remote location (friend, $work) and get semi-continuous off site backups. I think you can seed the backup server locally before relocating it. They also have an EC2 AMI to run a b

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Ess
On 7/21/2011 10:46 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > On 21 July 2011 15:29, Chris Ess > wrote: > > This is true of any physical backup mechanism though. Whether it's > drives, tapes, etc., it will be an added expense and off-site > storage will be an additional has

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 11-07-21 08:51 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: On 21 July 2011 15:41, Yves Dorfsman mailto:y...@zioup.com>> wrote: You'll need a lot of bandwidth at first, so add directories slowly, but then it'll be differentials only, so this shouldn't be an issue. I don't really like the idea of running

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:11:05PM -0400, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > All: > > So, I've recently started going to yoga to help relieve my persistent back > pain. I hope it helps because I'm too young for this kind of rubbish. I've > been looking for lumbar support pillows and/or other devices that

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Ess
On 7/21/2011 10:31 AM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > On 11-07-21 08:05 AM, Chris Ess wrote: >> >>> What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a >>> few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was >>> thinking tape; >> >> Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solu

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
On 21 July 2011 15:41, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > You'll need a lot of bandwidth at first, so add directories slowly, but > then it'll be differentials only, so this shouldn't be an issue. I don't really like the idea of running differentials for long time periods though. It's probably just hangove

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
On 21 July 2011 15:29, Chris Ess wrote: > This is true of any physical backup mechanism though. Whether it's drives, > tapes, etc., it will be an added expense and off-site storage will be an > additional hassle. > Yes, that's true - but tapes are smaller and lighter than entire enclosures with

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Mark Dennehy wrote: rsync and the new tools that checksum etc... are your friends. rsnapshot was top of my list along with something like amanda, the plan being that all the house's laptops get backed up to the server's tape drive along with backups of the NAS storage space

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
On 21 July 2011 15:29, Mason Turner wrote: > It was easy to justify the expense with my comptroller (wife) when she > nearly lost her iPhoto library a few years back. > If you think that's a good way to get spousal approval for buying a new server, you should try losing the hard drive that holds

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Yves Dorfsman
-an internet backup provider (yeah, yeah, "in the cloud") Sure, soon as you can get fibre to the home in Ireland (you *can* in some very select places under a pilot scheme from Magnet.ie and you can get 100Mb/s in some places via cable broadband; but I'm not in either of those lovely places.

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
On 21 July 2011 15:22, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > How much data are talking about? > On day one, about 1.5Tb or so. By the end of the first month, after all the now-on-DVDs-and-awkward-to-get-at stuff is moved to the server, somewhere between that and 3Tb. And I'm thinking of this being the main sto

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 11-07-21 08:05 AM, Chris Ess wrote: What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking tape; Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently looking at for my home fileserver. Becaus

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Ess
On 7/21/2011 10:13 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > Same issue as with a second NAS really. > I'm thinking here of a box that starts off with 4x2Tb drives in either > RAID-5+hot spare or RAID-6+hot spare, with further disks being added in > later (I tend to have a lot of HD video files from training). So

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Yves Dorfsman
On 11-07-21 07:40 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: Finally, I'm getting around to sorting out a server for home, to act as a NAS, a print server, and so forth. What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking tape; but

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Chris Ess was rumored to have written: > > (I haven't dealt with tape for several years so I don't know what > transfer rates are possible these days.) LTO-5 tape technology of today delivers about 3 TB at up to 140 MB/sec. Successive LTO generations are expected to be able to deliv

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
Backup-to-cloud (well, backup-to-my-own-server-in-germany to start with) over 8Mb/s ADSL would work for incrementals (mostly - some days I can be adding a gig or two in HD video, and I can see days where I could add ten times that), but images... *shudder* On 21 July 2011 15:14, Michael Ryder wro

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
On 21 July 2011 15:05, Chris Ess wrote: > Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently looking at for my home fileserver. > Same issue as with a second NAS really. I'm thinking here of a box that starts off with 4x2Tb drives in either RAID-5+hot spare or RAID-6+hot spare,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Ess
On 7/21/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb > of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking > tape; Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently looking at for my home fileserver. If

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Ryder
I'm grappling with this issue as well. Personally speaking, I am looking at backup to disk. I would either add a set of external SATA drives to the NAS, or have another NAS box backing up the primary NAS box. I don't want to have to worry about swapping tapes, bad tapes, lost tapes, etc. On the

[lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server?

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Dennehy
Hi all, Finally, I'm getting around to sorting out a server for home, to act as a NAS, a print server, and so forth. What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking tape; but swapping 80-odd DAT tapes would be

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Weiner Larry
When you wake up in the morning, use a towel to help stretch your hamstrings. Hold the towel with both hands and have the sole of your foot plus your heel held by the towel. With your leg extended all the way, raise your foot as far up in the air as you can with your back straight on the bed, and

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Gilbert Wilson > > For those of you who have (or hopefully /had/) back pain what do/did you > do to relieve it? A particular kind of exercise? Physical therapy? Lumbar > pillows to stop slouching? S

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Phil Pennock wrote: Different people, different things work. Just offering a contrasting point of view. (I tend to not actively enjoy the gym, especially not the next day). I don't really enjoy the gym either, but good genes will only get me so far. One of the side eff

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you relieve your "Sysadmin back pain?"

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-07-20 at 16:23 -0700, Jonathan Rozes wrote: > Don't join a gym unless you actually enjoy that sort of thing. By contrast, as someone constantly busy with work, getting dragged into help with just one more thing, I found that joining a gym and paying a trainer has been very worthwhile. Onc