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Subject: RE: memo: snapshots on /homes
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:22:11 -0800
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From: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: "Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>,
	"Brian DeForest" <brian.deforest@onstor.com>

Andy,

I had the opportunity to raise this question in an unusually good forum.
I happened to be in the break room with Brian Baker of IT and John
Rogers, who manages the lab, and I happened to already be discussing
Development captal equipment needs with John. By luck, Tim came by and
joined our conversation. Never underestimate the utility of occasional
good luck.

Brian reported that IT too wants to do snapshots, but has been short of
disk space. With the new year they expect to add more and will work with
us to implement snapshots. I added that we will do our part to be good
customers of IT, notably by avoiding doing builds in our home
directories.

So look for some progress on this about mid January.

jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:38 PM
To: Jay Michlin
Cc: Tim Gardner
Subject: memo: snapshots on /homes

Hi Jay,

I just thought I would drop you a note about something I think should be
brought up, either in the software meeting or some other time. But it's
come to my attention that we don't do snapshots on our home directories.
Kevin from IT said it's because we don't have enough storage for it.
Unfortunately I didn't get more information on that.

So the question is 'Is this an oversight, a budget decision, or some
other decision?'

I've mentioned this to Tim.  He agrees with me that we really should
snapshots turned on for our home directories, both to test and exercise
a key feature of our product, and to make things a bit more efficient
for developers who would like to occassionally utilize such snapshots,
but currently are relegated to submitting a help desk ticket (to have a
directory or file restored) that may or may not be completed in the next
3-4 weeks.

Tim said I should bring it up in the software meeting, but now I'm
wondering why not handle it with a memo to my boss ~:^)

I've asked Kevin and he says ... snarf, Kevin is not around, so I have
no more information on the why.

Cheers,

a

