Re: [sheflug] Assessing server requirements

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Rather than "cheapest", go for "best value". Some things included in
> "value":
> - amount of time needed to set up and maintain.
> - life expectancy. This includes both reliability (how long will it last
> before breaking) and capacity to handle growth (how many years will it
> last before needing a replacement)
> > Backups are already in place - I think there was some surprise that
> > Linux could back up onto a windows server!
Thanks for this and other suggestions. I'm expecting the school to want to
 get the server through its regular suppliers. The spec you've
 suggested is modest  compared to some of the servers they're having to
 get in (for instance  for SIMS). We might use it to host the website
 as well - I'm looking and Mambo/Joomla - but I'd expect that to get
 far less usage than Moodle.
> I've never done it that way around! Do file ownerships and permissions
> get preserved OK? Or are you using a tar archive to make sure they do
> get preserved?
I was told "we've nothing against open source, we're just worried about
integration", so it seemed appropriate to authenticate users against
Active Directory and backup onto already established (windows) systems.
If I can demonstrate moodle and LAMP are reliable they might decide to
use a Linux based backup system at some point. At the moment file
permissions/ownerships aren't preserved (I think - I should check). As
everything's owned by apache / mysql I hadn't got concerned about it.

David
> Gary
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