[labnetwork] Tool PC backups / PC redundancy

[Kurt Kupcho]

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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From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Nathan Nelson - Fitzpatrick
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:08 AM
To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
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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Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick  PhD

Nanofabrication Process Engineer

Quantum NanoFab

University of Waterloo

200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON   Canada  N2L 3G1

Ph: +1 519-888-4567 ext. 31796

 

 

 

 

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