Dear users of stat1004,
as it turns out, the backup of /srv will take a total of about eight hours
or so.
Thus, we will only do the backup step today (UTC/CEST), and the reimaging
first thing
tomorrow.
Apologies for this taking longer than expected. I'll send an update here as
things
progress.
Best,
Tobias
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:20 PM Tobias Klausmann <tklausm...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear users of stat100{4,6,7},
>
> we are planning on upgrading stat1004 to Debian Buster this Thursday
> (2020-09-17) after 12:00 CEST (10:00 UTC). We will reinstall the machine,
> preserving user data (home directories, /srv), but to be on the safe side,
> we will backup that data. After the reinstall and a few tests, we will
> send
> an all-clear to this list.
>
> A few things of note:
>
> - It would be greatly appreciated if you cleaned out unneeded data before
> the
> backup time mentioned above, thus speeding up backup (and restore if we
> need
> it).
> - Any changes made to the file system contents after the time mentioned
> above
> may be lost.
> - Around the time of the backup, both cron and systemd timers will be
> disabled, and still-running process may be ungracefully terminated.
>
> If this process works well, the remaining stat100x machines in need of
> update
> (6, 7) will be processed in a similar manner.
>
> As always, if there are questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
>
> Best,
> Tobias
>
> --
> Tobias Klausmann, SRE, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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Tobias Klausmann, SRE, Wikimedia Foundation
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