[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [gnu.org #447573] Savannah is down v2

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:31:11PM -0400, Daniel Clark via RT wrote:
> > [beuc - Wed Sep 30 14:23:57 2009]:
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16:05PM -0400, Daniel Clark via RT wrote:
> > > > [beuc - Mon Jun 01 04:09:41 2009]:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:02:19PM -0400, Ward Vandewege via RT
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Update:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. danny or peabo will bring disk with last backup to colo
> > tomorrow,
> > > > > sometime before noon EDT
> > > > > 2. it will be provided to savannah over nfs at lan speed
> > > > > 3. they will then also move the usb disk to another machine with
> > usb2
> > > > > (after checking in on #savannah to make sure no rsyncs/etc are
> > running
> > > > > anymore), and then you'll also get that over nfs at lan speed
> > > > >
> > > > > I've ordered some adapters for SCA to 68 pin scsi which should
> > hopefully
> > > > > get to the office by Tuesday afternoon. We have a scsi
> > controller that
> > > > > we can use, so then we can take another stab at the old disks in
> > the
> > > > > disk array.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you want, we can also give you some more disk space for
> > savannah over
> > > > > nfs, in the mean time. Just let us know.
> > > >
> > > > We'll need space to host all of 'vcs-noshell', yes.
> > > > Our du's said it weighs ~41GB, we've got 39 free here.
> > > > CVS itself is 24GB afaicr.
> > > >
> > > > Do we have more disks?
> > >
> > > I believe all issues in this ticket were resolved via IRC or by the
> > new
> > > machine with a crapload of disk you guys now have - please tell me
> > if
> > > you think there is anthing more to do on this (and if so,
> > specifically
> > > what it is). Thanks.
> > 
> > I think we can close this ticket.  The only remaining issue is a way
> > to modify the DNS "live" during a migration.
> > 
> > In anticipation the TTL could be set to 60s already.
> 
> It was already 300 seconds for gnu.org; we just set it to 300 seconds
> (down from a day) for nongnu.org; I think that should be sufficient, but
> if you really want less time just ping me on IRC 10min before and I can
> put it down to 60s temporarily.
> 
> Also we should be sure to schedule the changeover to a time where FSF
> Sys Admins, you, and any other volunteers who want to help are available.

Ward suggested rsync'ing the zone from somewhere, so we could do it
without schedule, and possibly switch back and forth quickly if
there's a problem.

This is a non-trivial move, so flexibility is important.

-- 
Sylvain