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How to make your backblaze pod be powered by the cloud!
We at Oxygen Cloud are always looking at ways to make the cloud more personal. A while back we stumbled over the Backblaze blog talking about “How to build cheap cloud storage” and it gave us an idea! What if we get one, but turn it up the volume to 11 by integrating the Backblaze into the Oxygen Cloud?
This is what 55TB looks like!
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zuhaib
Hi Keith,
We are looking at releasing a Linux build of our client in the next two weeks, so any user can install Oxygen Storage Connector on their Linux NAS to create an OC appliance.
The Oxygen Tunnel gateway is a service we provide that allows users access to their Oxygen Storage Connector without configuration of their Firewall from anywhere. Since this is part of our infrastructure I cant get too much in to details about its technical working but if you want to learn more I suggest you drop a ticket at our support desk at oxygencloud.com/support
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Ray Long
Those Green drives are consumer grade, and you will likely run into problems sooner than later. I recommend an enterprise class drive.
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zuhaib
@ray,
You are correct they are consumer drive, but that is part of the beauty of the setup. Using cheap drives to get you very cheap cost per GB and you reduce data lost by setting up some fault tolerance. We had a few drives die but because of the raid setup we had no data lost and hotswap allows us to rebuild the raid.
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Paul
Hi Zuhaib we want to build a storage raid for our business but we only need 10 X 3tb drives for startup but will expand as time goes any advise for us? Could we just add drives to the pod? Mail me please [email protected]
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zuhaib
@paul, You can add more space as needed. You will need to rebuild the raid and increase the lvm partition. Just note if you plan to use it in production I recommend building it yourself using the spec Backblaze provide as the we got at Oxygen Cloud want not the best quality of hardware.
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Paul
thanks just so i understand, i wont loose data on already installed drives? i just ad to the “software RAID build?” and what if we want to have data embeded on the new disks before we ad them to the RAID? is this posible at all. we allready manufactured the case for $60 in South Africa and built the complete POD for $400 using intell i7CPU, 8gb RAM and a high spec PCB “overkill but worth the $” we will look at supplying these to the industry “export” once we have learnt the RAID build & done realtime testing
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zuhaib
@paul, I suggest you look in to mdadm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdadm, and lvm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux) the two technology we used to build the raid the partitions. There is a lot of strategies you can use including hardware raid or just leaving each of the 3 raid array as individual “drives”. Mdadm allows you to add more drives without data lost (if done correctly), as for having data on the drives and adding them to the array afik its not possible.
Paul, 
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zuhaib
Interesting trick for recruiting from Groupon
So a few days ago the wife was reporting problems with her e-mail and one of those e-mails she was having problems with was groupon. So I decided to take a look at the e-mail headers to figure out when they were sent and I found this little gem.
Received: by mta11g.e.groupon.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r16) id hu7ouq0ie1sl for ZSIDDIQUE@GMAIL.COM; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:40:10 -0600 (envelope-from bounce-107228_HTML-686961132-11052402-96988-0@bounce.e.groupon.com)
X-Recruiting: Interested in headers? Join us: http://www.groupon.com/techjobs
From: "Groupon" mail@e.groupon.com
It’s a cute trick to get people who understand headers to be interested in the company.
Did I forget to mention that we at Oxygen Cloud are hiring, http://www.oxygencloud.com/careers.html
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Are you ready to be a System Admin at Oxygen Cloud?
As you know I joined Oxygen Cloud a few months back as Senior System Admin and now as we grow we need more in the Operations team as we get ready to launch our new secret project.
If you have a passion to work at a fast moving company, understand the unique demand of supporting a fully automated scalable backend then you are the person for this job!
Go ahead and submit your resume to me zuhaib.siddique
A Systems Administrator position here at Oxygen encompasses much, much more than just maintaining some Linux servers. You will be given the the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and tools in order to overcome the real-world challenges that accompany the ambitious goal of bringing Oxygen to the masses. We are looking for very smart, very dedicated individuals that like nothing more than to get their hands dirty addressing scaling, performance, and availability challenges across a vast cloud infrastructure. Passion, skill, and a whole lot of Geek Cred are the attributes we are looking for here. Does 90% of your home electric bill come from powering dozens of gadgets and several Linux boxes? Does your idea of a “fun night” involve opening your wireless access up to your bandwidth stealing neighbors, so that you can invert all of their web content? Do you find that your most common thought on a daily basis is “I’ll just write a script for that”? If so, then we want to talk to you. Role/Responsibilities: Manage the day-to-day operations of Oxygen’s infrastructure to ensure smooth 24×7 operation Work closely with Engineering to ensure proper and timely deployment of software to staging and production environments. Use cutting edge methods and technology to identify and solve problems related to performance, scalability, reliability, and availability Develop, implement, and continually improve upon best practice processes and procedures Skills/Experience: 2-4 years of hard core system administration or technical operations experience Very strong knowledge of Linux system administration practices and troubleshooting. Strong passion for Cloud storage and Cloud computing technologies Experience with Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, and cloud services infrastructures Ability to troubleshoot errors and proactively identify issues Demonstrated ability to generate and maintain technical documentation Bonus Skills: Understanding of MySQL performance characteristics and scaling options Knowledge of systems architecture design and implementation Knowledge of configuration management and automation (Chef, Puppet, etc.) Experience with the following tech: Nginx, Ruby, Python, LDAP/AD, DNS/BIND, SSO, SMTP, NFS, Beanstalk, Memcached, SSL Requirements for applying: Tell us what interests you about this position Tell us about a project that you have significantly contributed to and are very proud of E-mail the above and your resume in PDF format to [email protected]
Hi there, great post, can I ask if you could package the Oxygen storage connector into a distro to sit on top of the Blazepod – in essence creating a OC appliance?
What are the Oxygen tunnel gateways are these the same as the storage connectors?