Persephone
From UGCS
Persephone is our current backup server.
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Hardware
- 1U Dell Poweredge 860
- Dual-core 1.86Ghz Xeon
- 2Gb ram
- 2x 400gb hard drives (acquired used from Ruddock)
- SCSI card for tape interface
Network
- IP 131.215.176.69
- MAC 00:1d:09:f2:0e:a6
- Secondary MAC 00:1d:09:f2:0e:a7
- DNS: persephone
Services
- Bacula
- It also runs AFS butc and backup in a root screen session (crappy, but about the only way to do it). The backup interactive session is in the screen so it's always running and you can schedule jobs.
Tape drive
The tape drive is a Certance LTO-2 tape drive. You can find downloads from Quantum's site here
There is a manual for the tape drive named user_guide_cl400lwxx_en.pdf in /afs/ugcs/ugcs-admin/manuals
The drive has a management tool named 'xTalk' that is in /usr/local/sbin. It has a manual at file:///afs/ugcs/ugcs-admin/manuals/omxTalk_Linux_QuantumUsersGuide.pdf The rest of the xTalk software is located in /usr/local/share/xTalk. See the downloads page for updated versions.

