RE: [SLE] Pre-Configured Linux Server Search...
you could probably built a SMP machine for that much ( I have ) and with 1/2 gig mem.... The major cost would be the type of support you need if the machine is hosted outside you offices or come to think of it even inside..... Surjit
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Jackson [SMTP:kevin.jackson@jhallpr.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 12:30 PM To: SuSE Linux List (E-mail) Subject: [SLE] Pre-Configured Linux Server Search...
Applies To: Linux, SuSE, UK, Apache, JDBC
I'm involved in an internet ordering system using a SuSE Linux Apache Web Server/JDBC and AIX/Progress machines. We are currently looking for a new web server which will run the SuSE/Apache setup.
Does anyone have a preference on a server only solution from a manufacturer?
Price range around £1,000 - £2,000 UK Pounds
Spec Approx:
800MHz 128Mb Ram (+ 128Mb Ram) Raid Controller not neccessary SCSI or IDE disk(s if RAID) 100Mb Ethernet
Linux does not have to be preloaded, but if it is then of course SuSE would be the flavour.
Do IBM have dealings with SuSE?
Regards,
Kev Jackson
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Hi all, I take regular backups ( Full .. about 2.0 GB ) to my HP SCSI dat drive ........ In this manner..*everything* except the contents of /tmp is backed up... I would like to know... how best to restore my present system in case of a HD crash or something ........ I run SAMBA, WWW ( compiled with MySQL & PHP ), FTP, Sendmail/Fetchmail and a few other services......... any pointers would be very welcome............ Oh yes.. i have the boot & rescue disks ready... Regards Anurag -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi Anurag and list I think this a a good topic that should be covered on the support site and in a prominent place in the manual. For those of you who years ago use Coherent from the Mark Williams Company (defunct now since Linux) they had a big emphasis on system reliability and security, which schooled a lot of us in the importance of being ready for when/if the worst happens. My server have backups and I mirror disks.. but if that day comes (and it hasn't come yet) that I have to restore my server... that page in the SuSE manual telling me and my juniors ABC to get things up and running, is going to make us happy with SuSE or mad at ourselves. Maybe I great marketing opportunity for SuSE. People remember the times things go wrong but rarely the times things go right. My 2c Chris On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:23:57 +0530, Anurag Jalan wrote:
Hi all,
I take regular backups ( Full .. about 2.0 GB ) to my HP SCSI dat drive ........ In this manner..*everything* except the contents of /tmp is backed up...
I would like to know... how best to restore my present system in case of a HD crash or something ........
I run SAMBA, WWW ( compiled with MySQL & PHP ), FTP, Sendmail/Fetchmail and a few other services.........
any pointers would be very welcome............
Oh yes.. i have the boot & rescue disks ready...
Regards
Anurag
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
I would like to know... how best to restore my present system in case of a HD crash or something ........
that completely depends on how you make your backups. I use dump, which is a rather dumb but useful tool for this. Dump makes incremental backups (every morning) and full backups (every Sunday) of my user space. When the system was new, I wiped the user space and used the `restore' program to test the dump. Everything worked fine. FYI here is my crontab script that runs the dumps. --------- MAILTO=dirkj@u.arizona.edu 00 04 * * Mon /sbin/dump 9uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-9-monday' 00 04 * * Tue /sbin/dump 8uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-8-tuesday ' [.. etc ..] 00 04 * * Sun /sbin/dump 0uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-0.... BKHOST is the host I backup too (a file server), fill in something useful after the dots so your full backups (level 0) don't overwrite each other. Also, add some commands to remove old dumps. The `su -' bit is there because I don't want to ssh to my BKHOST as root (and I cannot, for that matter). This crontab is run as root, because it also handles other backup things that user dirkj can't reach. If you have a tape drive, you can dump directly to that and remove all the ssh stuff. YMMV but good luck, Dirk -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Anurag Jalan wrote:
I take regular backups ( Full .. about 2.0 GB ) to my HP SCSI dat drive ........ In this manner..*everything* except the contents of /tmp is backed up...
I would like to know... how best to restore my present system in case of a HD crash or something ........
That is a *very* good question and I will answer it, it is not so difficult, just cumbersome. But first let's change the point of view and replace the "I", "me" and "my" to "someone else". I know what I did to install my homesystem, but the new server I configured at work (50% of my time I am a sysadmin) last week, how long will I work there? I will be on holidays, business trips etc. Some hardware needs some extra tricks to get to work, this is very important! So I am writing a manual that contains all the steps I took and tricks I had to pull to configure the server for all it's hardware and install the most important software: the Backup software. This goes in a special box with all software, copy's of licenses etc. and will be labeld: RHC, Compaq ML370, "In deep shit survival kit" Together with a regular check of the backup log's and both this box and the backup tapes stored in a safe place you are ready for a rainy day. And be specially vigilant about the backup logs, I did a small audit of someone elses server farm two days ago (I was introducing the replacement's replacement sysadmin to some interconnection that exists) and found that from the 3 mission critical machines they have there one had not been backed up since May, one since March, and one since August '99!!! No one actually read the log files or made the effort to startup the management software and look in the reports database! But what could you do on your (home) system? First of all make a note of the kernel paramaters that are needed to run your hardware. What irq, io and other parameters are passed by LILO to the kernel to have it recognise your SCSI card. What are they for that fancy off bourd UDMA controller, etc. Also if you baked yourself a special kernel to make use of the most critical hardware, bake one with these parts *NOT* compiled as loadable modules but into the kernel and put that one on a disk so you can boot from it or copy it to /boot from the fresh and lean install of linux after the crash, run lilo with the right params/config (did you wright the down somewhere ;)) and reboot to get the stuff running. Well I think you can extrapolate from here to you own situation.
Oh yes.. i have the boot & rescue disks ready...
That's a good beginning :) BB, Arjen -- Sell what you use, use what you sell. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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