Today, the big staff shared space nearly ran out of space. So I put a new SAS drive in and moved everyone's stuff on to it. Took around 90 mins. Also moved the FileMaker databases over and sorted out the FileMaker Service to point to the new location.
Started work on the new Moodle set-up with the ex-tech. It's a PAIN. Moodle is on a server with expensive SAS drives which are only 146GB, and we have 1 spare. So if we make a new infinitely better Moodle without breaking the old one, we only have a single drive to put it on (ie, no RAID). If we want a 300GB drive for future-profing, they are £400 each. The old Moodle is set up in Linux in geek mode and its hard to copy the stuff off to a backup location as it refuses to copy properly. GRR!
We've decided to set up a temp new Moodle on an old Xeon server which has 500GB of SATA RAID. However this was slow when it was last tested out, so if we can't tune the PHP and Apache services, then its going to be crap. The current Moodle server has a fat processor and 4GB RAM, so it's ideal apart from its expensive and relatively small drives, and the fact we don't have enough spare SAS drives to set up a working config with the fail-safe of going back to the old ones!
Acquired some new furniture today to organise the office a bit better.
The new ICT suite is getting blasted with a shiny new 10.5.6 image, so that should be amazing next term.
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