Month: July 2014 | Mjanja Tech

Using swiftclient for Object Storage on OpenStack

I wanted to play with my new account on East African OpenStack provider Kili.io, specifically to use the OpenStack Swift object storage to do periodic backups from my desktop. I’d used tools like s3cmd to do backups to Amazon S3 object storage, but it doesn’t seem to work with OpenStack’s Swift. python-swiftclient seems to be […]

Parallelizing rsync

Last week I had a massive hardware failure on one of the GlusterFS storage nodes in the ILRI, Kenya Research Computing cluster: two drives failed simultaneously on the underlying RAID5. As RAID5 can only withstand one drive failure, the entire 31TB array was toast. FML. After replacing the failed disks, rebuilding the array, and formatting […]