[geeks] New Server Pictures

[Bill Bradford]

Don't know if I posted these yet, but I switched everything over to the
new server (loaded used E420R, courtesy of Tom Haug @ Meridian Leasing)
on Thursday night.  Quad 450Mhz/4M-cache CPUs, 4G of RAM, dual 18G
10Krpm hard drives, and a DVD-ROM.  He also made sure I had dual power 
supplies.

http://www.sunhelp.org/e420r/pictures/

Left my house at 9pm, picked up the 420R from work (where I'd done its
OS install and patching, etc), drove it the rest of the way to the colo
facility, and finally left to go home around 1:30am.

I'd like to continue to thank John Butler and the good folks at Anysystem.com,
who gave me a *great* deal on the loaded E3K that we've been running on for
the past 3.5 months.  I had some changes in colocation situation, and
needed to reduce my AC power usage (we were close to tripping the circuit 
the rack was on) and rack space usage (so other customers can put machines
in that rack now).

Tom donated the 420R literally at the "last minute", when I'd already been
preparing to move things to Solaris x86 and host everything on a pair of
older Athlon machines donated by a listmember.  

With that listmember's approval, those two machines will now become a 
remote backup server here at the house (see http://www.rsnapshot.org) and 
a firewall.  

With the remote backup machine here at the house, I'll have revolving 
NetApp-like snapshots of all the data on the machine (once I can scrounge up
an 80G or larger IDE hard drive) and can just do backups to tape here at the 
house without having to drive the 40 mile round trip to the colo facility
on the other side of town.  

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas