[TriLUG] Free Sun Ultra 5 for TriLUG

[Jason Tower]

i don't even like READING rm -rf /* much less typing it.  it took me seven 
tries just to type this email without nervous tics impeding my typing.

jason

On Thursday 31 October 2002 14:07, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:53, Jason Tower wrote:
> > not knowing the details of trilug's physical infrastructure and setup,
> > this may be a foolish question: is there any particular reason for adding
> > a dedicated machine to accomplish this goal vs. adding a disk to the
> > existing machine with the home directories and mounting it as /backup?
>
> There is a good reason-- we have no free drive bays in the existing
> computers. The Ultra 5 is also a small form factor, and will fit nicely
> in our limited space.  The "stonesoup" computer, as well as an extra
> Dell workstation that we currently have, are both considerably larger
> and would be difficult to fit in our half-rack.
>
> Plus there are other good reasons to have the backup server on a
> separate computer (for example, if someone does rm -rf /* , they won't
> wipe the backups too).
>
> --Jeremy
>
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