[labnetwork] Tool PC backups / PC redundancy

[Matthieu Nannini, Dr.]

I don’t think much can be done rather than cloning the HD. I’ve seen people cloning the HD on a IDE SSD to replace the original HD on old MSDOS systems and use the SSD instead while keeping the original HD somewhere safe. Even in that case, I had to order a new HD from the company because it was somehow custom and dumping the image onto a new one did not work. Cost me 1200$.
Beside cloning, you can pile money in case this happens.

Cheers

MAtthieu

Le 2014-11-12 à 15:58, Kurt Kupcho <kakupcho at wisc.edu<mailto:kakupcho at wisc.edu>> a écrit :

Great question.  We do what you do and backup the computer files onto external disks and clone the hard drives.  I am interested to see what other labs are doing as well.

-          Kurt


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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:08 AM
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Subject: [labnetwork] Tool PC backups / PC redundancy

Hi Labnetwork,

Over the past year our lab has seen quite a few new tool installations and as a result we now have over thirty tools (microscopes, EBL, deposition/etch systems, etc…) that have some sort of interface with a personal computer.  Many of these personal computers are run-of-the-mill consumer grade PCs and I think that running this many computers over a many-year timescale will mean that failures are virtually guaranteed.  I’m very interested in knowing how larger labs with many computers (with many different port configurations, hardware requirements, and operating systems) prepare for and deal with this problem.

At our site, we are simply cloning the various tool hard drives (using Clonezilla) onto external hard drives that sit on a shelf in my office.  This is time consuming and requires some discipline to keep going.  The other problem with this approach is that it does not really protect us in the case of non-disk hardware failures (such as a motherboard failure).  I’d love to know the philosophies and approaches that larger labs employ to deal with this problem.

Thanks,
  -Nathan
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Nanofabrication Process Engineer
Quantum NanoFab
University of Waterloo
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