On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:20:53AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > I would still want it fixed - we should not settle on possibly having > problems in the future. A perfect machine was sent, a perfect machine > is to be received (Ahmad notes that he's already in contact with the > "claims" people over there). See if there is a close-by IBM shop or > service center or something to get a quote. Fully agreed.. we certainly don't want to run into unpredictable problems in the near/long future. > > BTW, we need to decide if we want to setup RAID on this box or Sync or > > whatever befor I got ahead and set it up. > > Mohammed, comments ? I'm not the prefect person to talk about such things. > But as this machine will live in an external site, is RAID a problem ? > Should we do both (for extra paranoia) - I'm assuming we'll continue to > download tarballs to burn onto CDs for backup, etc - no ? I am not familiar with neither. I haven't had the luxury of working with RAID or Sync (not sure what Sync is actually). Anmar, you're the sysadmin, make an informed decision ;) regards, -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://fakkir.net/~elzubeir/| -------------------------------------------------------
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