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<div>Hi Labnetwork,</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div> -Nathan</div>
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<div>Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick PhD</div>
<div>Nanofabrication Process Engineer</div>
<div>Quantum NanoFab</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
<div>200 University Avenue West</div>
<div>Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1</div>
<div>Ph: +1 519-888-4567 ext. 31796</div>
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