Persephone is our backup server.

Hardware

• Rack location: Right side, fifth from bottom
• Acquired new in 2007
• Dell Poweredge 860 1U rackmount server
• Service Tag GQ3QMF1
• Intel Xeon 3040 Dual-core 1.86GHz
• 2GB ram
• 2x 400GB SATA hard drives
• SCSI card for tape deck

Configuration

• Login access: sysadmins
• Cfengine class coreserver, backup_server

Disks

• /dev/md0: raid1, /dev/sd[a-b]3, LVM physical volume in volume group "persephone" (total size 141GB)
• /dev/md1: raid1, /dev/sd[a-b]1, mounted on /boot (total size 256MB)
• /dev/md2: raid0, /dev/sd[a-b]4, LVM physical volume in volume group "backups" (total size 454GB)

LVM

• Volume group "persephone" on /dev/md0 (total size 141GB)
  • LV persephone-root: mounted on / (total size 16GB)
  • LV persephone-var: mounted on /var (total size 16GB)

• Volume group "backups" on /dev/md2 (total size 454GB)
  • LV backups-spool: mounted on /var/local/bacula-spool (total size 100GB)
  • LV backups-backups: mounted on /var/local/bacula-backupss (total size 325GB)

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.

Network

• IP 131.215.176.69
• MAC: 00:1D:09:F2:0E:A6 (unused)
• MAC: 00:1D:09:F2:0E:A7
• DNS: persephone.ugcs.caltech.edu

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.