In the next month, the OFA will be running from a new server. Nothing exciting in terms of processing and memory - those specs are the same - but much more disk space (/home is nearly full on sofa), and at quite a bit less cost. A new IMAP mail service will be available if you want it. The new server is called <a href="http://beany.openfabrics.org">beany.openfabrics.org</a>. And it's still being hosted by the same service provider, so bandwidth, availability, reliability, etc. will be the same from them. At this point, not data on sofa will change and you will still run from sofa. <div>
<br></div><div>Everything will migrate over to beany, and it will become our list server, mail server, git, web, etc. This email is to inform those with user accounts that I will back up the sofa:/home directory and then rsync beany:/home with sofa:/home for user data this weekend. User accounts and the /home directory have already been set up, but the filesystems aren't sync'd yet. Once I do that, and I'll notify when it's done, I'd appreciate all users to check their home directories on beany and let me know if they see any abnormalities. Then I will make sure all other systems are in place and running on beany before doing one more sync, after which you will be responsible for your files. Again, at this time, I will NOT affect any data on sofa and you will still run from it. I realize that some users will not get this email before I rsync this weekend; but your data will not be affected on sofa.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After that, I will keep sofa up and available for a couple more weeks, cp all /home directories to an archive space on beany that will be accessible in case there are some users who still need to access existing data as of the crossover date, tar /home offsite, and eventually remove the /home archive from beany over the months. Sofa will be decommissioned by the end of May.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyone with any concerns, requests, issues, recommendations, etc. please reply to me only at <a href="mailto:kens@openfabrics.org">kens@openfabrics.org</a>. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><br><div>
<br></div><div><b><font size="4">Ken Strandberg</font></b></div><div><font size="4"><i>Webmanager/SysAdmin</i></font></div><div><i><b>OpenFabrics Alliance</b></i></div><div><a href="mailto:kens@openfabrics.org" target="_blank">kens@openfabrics.org</a></div>
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