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July 2020

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[ISG News] Hardware maintenance of storage front-end servers.
by Maciej Bonin 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Hardware maintenance of storage front-end servers.' Planned maintenance will be taking place on all shared-storage front-end servers on Thursday, August 6th, starting at 17:00. The service will be down for approximately 2-3 hours. This post will be updated as soon as work is completed, were we to finish earlier than expected. We will be upgrading the network switch and replacing hardware in several machines. All group shares will be affected, i.e. group-data, IPA, IGP and Galaxy. Only the home and backup servers will be accessible during this time. For emergency cases, there will be read-only access to last night’s backup as described here. You may view the latest post at https://isg.phys.ethz.ch/2020/07/30/hardware-maintenance-of-storage-front-e… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Maciej Bonin mbonin(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] New backup service (beta)
by Christian Herzog 10 Jul '20

10 Jul '20

ISG News has posted a new item, 'New backup service (beta)' TL;DR we have a new backup solution mainly for laptops that frequently leave campus and are looking for beta testers. Among the many things we had to learn during the Corona-induced home office stint, one particularly interesting one was: which of our services do work from outside the ETH network, and which do not. I'd like to believe we fared rather well in general, but one glaring counter-example is our BackupPC service for lab and laptop computers. It relies on the client machine having a .dhcp.phys.ethz.ch host name, which only works on wired campus connections. We understand this meant missing backups for those of you who had to take machines off-campus. In order to be prepared for a second wave, we've partnered up with our colleagues of isginf to provide a lab/laptop backup system that works with whatever network connection you have available. It's based on the tried and tested Open Source restic backup solution that runs on Windows, Linux and macOS clients. At the current stage we're looking for early beta testers. Since lab computers are typically still in the lab and continue to work fine with BackupPC, laptop users are currently most interesting for us. So if you'd like to test out our road-warrior compatible backup solution, please get in touch. Be aware that this service still has some rough edges, but we'll walk you through all necessary steps and the backup runs themselves have been working fine for weeks now. You may view the latest post at https://isg.phys.ethz.ch/2020/07/10/new-backup-service-beta/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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