First, the family stuff. Noah is fine, he was just teething real bad. I did
end up getting my yellow stripe belt, but I had to show that I knew the
moves first. I dont think I should have got it myself, but I’ll make up for it
next belt.
I am pleased to say that you are being served this page from the new hardware.
Everything is finally in the state that I wanted it to be from the get go.
The whole rig, switch and all, is pulling a consistent 1.6 Amps, down from
close to 6 Amps. The temperature is a little higher then I like, 36.5C, but
I moved to a 1u UPS and that little dude gets warm. I did end up having to
remove my nice little filters out of the rack, they prevented too much
airflow and the whole darn thing raised almost 12 degrees C with them in!
All of the VMs are on their own block devices (RAID1 at that) so no more
30gig sparse files. I was going to use LVM, but we don’t have a consistent
enough backup strategy to save my butt incase the LVM craps out. Using
RAID1 md devices, I know I can always just pop out the drive and read it in
any old machine, the same can’t be said for running LVM. Wireless is still on
the back burner, Im just not sure we need it and I hate the security
implications. We may end up running ipsec over wifi on the new rig.
Their are two new things that Im pretty excited about getting working. The
first one is really just a completion of how I backup my hosts. Im moving
everything to rsync, including the windows boxes, and making the rsync server
web accesable. My thought is that I can take my laptop anywhere and always
have access to the current state of my workstation. Same with Jessi’s
laptop. The second new toy is going to be finally putting my NAS to work. I
bought this little NAS appliance awhile back with the plan to use it for
additional backups, but it never got fired up. Now with the whole rsync plan,
Im thinking about cranking it on and making it a sort of “off-site” backup.
Well, at least a “in-the-garage-and-not-in-a-pc” backup.