Attendees

Zach, Eric, Elaine, TomG, Greg, Scooter, TomF

December 14, 2023

Agenda

• Eric, work in progress
• ChimeraX 1.7 release
• Holiday card

Discussion Notes

• Holiday card
  • Need to print labels with better text quality.
  • Scooter will work on printing labels on alanine or trp.
  • Paste labels on cards this afternoon.

• Backups
  • Tape robotics drive is broken. Eric tried dozens of resets with no luck.
  • No restores from backs possible without tape drive.
  • Tom Ferrin says there is another tape drive from Jacobson lab but it needs some parts swapped out that he could work on after holidays.
  • Scooter says cloud backups to Microsoft Azure are $8-9 per TB per year. Should investigate.
  • Eric would have to revise backup scripts to use cloud backup. Might be a small change to send tar files to cloud.
  • Greg pointed out that UCSF outgoing bandwidth is low (~10 Gbits) that could impair cloud backups.
  • Scooter says Mission Bay looking at getting 100 Gbit internet connection.
  • Tom Ferrin notes many labs are pressuring UCSF IT to allow cloud backups, and they have agreed that it is permissible.

• ChimeraX Mac notarization failing
  • Mac notarization failed the last two days.
  • This prevented releasing ChimeraX 1.7 yesterday.
  • Investigation shows codesign certificate expired December 12.
  • Eric talking to David Ng to get new certificate.

• Eric's work-in-progress presentation postponed until next week's group meeting.

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