Here's the current situation:
* quark, quarkprime, image, backup, and the UPSs are out on the table on 4th floor.
* proto and the AGS are in the server closet.
* The rack is sitting on the floor by the window.
* newton is down in the 2nd floor closet with its modems.
To get things finalized, these things need to be done:
* Kevan Wogoman needs to be consulted about getting cabling down to the Noyes cluster machine room.
* John Walker needs to be consulted about the location (and possibly the size) of the humidifier going into the cluster machine room.
I restored all of quark's backup sets onto quarkprime as a full-blown test of Amanda. Everything worked, and I'm now doing the mundane stuff like running rsync and restoring the Postgres databases.
To reduce dependency issues, I've turned off NFS and NIS on backup. Root ssh logins are enabled, and I also set the password for the operator user to the insecure password, so either can be used for remote logins.
Present: Dan, Skylar
* Get Aybars keys and timesheet on WebDB (CharlieP)
* Meet Sunday afternoon for 4th floor cleanup (Skylar, Dan, Aybars, CharlieP)
* Get time sync working on ACLs (Dan, Aybars)
* Figure out NFS mounting issue on ACLs (Skylar)
* Fix CD kernel module problem wrt imaging on ACLs (Skylar)
* Write up documentation for Amanda backup/restore (Skylar)
* Get new monitor in ACL lab (Dan)
* Reinstall Solaris 9 on millie (Dan)
* Get NetBSD working again on bagend (Skylar)
* Get Aybars wheel access on ACLs (Skylar)
* Investigate bare-metal recovery with Amanda (Skylar)
* Pimp out the admin office with new LCD monitors (Dan, Skylar)
- Present: CharlieP, Dan, Aybars, Skylar
* Chair count (Skylar)
* Meet Saturday at 8AM (EST) for cleaning (CharlieP, Skylar, Aybars, Dan)
* Backup schedule will be to maintain full set of incremental backups for a month, full monthly backups for a semester, and an end-of-semester full backup for another semester. Need to order one more magazine w/ tapes. (Skylar, CharlieP)
I've made significant headway in amanda, and need to generate a tapetype. I'm using the amtapetype utility, but that requires reading and writing to the tape drive for potentially many hours. I've disabled the daily cron job that writes dumps to tape to avoid interfering with this. I'll run the backup script manually when amtapetype is done.
I've setup a cron job on backup that will email us whenever it's time for a monthly backup. I also have written a short Perl script (/root/scripts/monthly_backup.pl) that will automate the procedure when following these instructions.
I've rolled out Linux 2.4.28 on all the ACLs to fix some security vulnerabilities.
After moving the boot jumper to 0x102, I managed to get the AGS to boot the IOS 11.0 image. We're now running the most up-to-date software that Cisco supports on the AGS.
I've made some feature extensions and optimizations to the backup script.
* I've changed the function that gets the day. Instead of a big switch statement, I now use regular expression matching to get to all-lowercase.
* I've added indexing functionality, so that it's easier to know which dump a particular file is on. The indexes are stored on backup, in /var/log/indexes. The next directory levels contain respectively the year, month, and numerical day of the month. The last one contains the actual filesystem indexes.