Monthly Archives: April 2007

Discounted sun servers

Posted on April 25, 2007 by alq

Not that I enjoy ads but suddenly sun feels like newegg. I suppose part of the deal is to get the tech blogosphere excited about their discounting their servers — or getting rid of extra inventory before a revamping of … Continue reading →

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How to *not* package technical documentation

Posted on April 18, 2007 by alq

I have been reading the technical documentation from our SAN vendor in order to connect their SNMP agent to our monitoring rig (a collection of cacti and awk/postgresql contraptions designed to operate as performance data warehouses). Since they use private … Continue reading →

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iostat + gawk + postgresql + R = iops

Posted on April 13, 2007 by alq

Using postgresql and R to analyze I/O data Continue reading →

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Personal back-up options

Posted on April 12, 2007 by alq

A quick personal note, yesterday I was looking for a good secondary backup solution from my personal files.  I currently have an external drive attached to my main machine, and every morning, cron faithfully rsync’s some critical directories to that … Continue reading →

Posted in amazon, backup, bingodisk, joyent, s3, s3sync, storage, strongspace | 1 Comment

Sun 2200M2 + Apple XserveRaid

Posted on April 1, 2007 by alq

This should prove a worthy Oracle 10g combination. We plan to use it for development purposes. The Sun server is a nice little 1U (specs here), connected via an HBA to 10.5TB of raw storage from Apple. I’ll post a … Continue reading →

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