[Clusterusers] keg/cellar update

[Piper Odegard]

Argh, we get a nicer keg setup just as I leave! That's still awesome.

I have >1TB of renders on Keg (/helga/pod3/renders/...) that don't
really need to be backed up. I'll hang on to them on a portable
hard drive until it dies, but the school doesn't need to lug them
around.

- Piper 

On 2015-05-08 10:49, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote: 

> This isn't about fly exactly, but I think the overlap between people who
> care about keg or cellar and fly is near-100%.
> 
> So, we have a new version of cellar (our backup server), which has 22TB
> of space. Whoah. It's a hardware-controlled RAID6 of 6 6TB drives.
> Because of this, I have started backing up everything - all of keg, and
> all of fly, with a few exceptions that is just my stuff. This does mean
> that the backups are taking a long time, particularly of fly, meaning
> that they don't always finish in 4 hours and so we occasionally miss
> one, so if you have anything that is truly temporary/junk that changes a
> lot, like a huge scratch folder full of lots of files, let me know, and
> I'll prune them from the backups. No biggie though.
> 
> So, that's great.
> 
> What's less great is that we may be the process of losing ANOTHER disk
> in keg. However, this time we won't lose anything, even if keg dies
> entirely, which probably won't happen, and I am in the process of
> building a new RAID 6+2 16-drive keg that will have around 30TB of disk
> space, and be much faster and more reliable as well. I hope to have it
> ready to go by the end of next week.
> 
> Have a great weekend!
 
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