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  1. May 03, 2023
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      replace deprecated tempfile call with mktemp · d3c8ab49
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      tempfile is a debian-ism and jammy warns us that use is deprecated.
      mktemp has been available on all our debian/ubuntu machines for a long time
      via coreutils (e.g. it was definitely in wheezy and trusty, and I'm pretty
      sure since before then too)
      0.9-ch100
      d3c8ab49
  2. Jan 05, 2023
    • Dr Catherine Pitt's avatar
      Redhat prepare scripts compresses MySQL backup · d2a7ea19
      Dr Catherine Pitt authored
      The incremental backups on some cluster head nodes are growing quite
      large, and most of the churn is the uncompressed MySQL dumpfile which
      changes with every backup and can be over 1GB. This commit compresses
      that data, which reduces the size of the file by 90% on at least one
      machine.
      0.9-ch99
      d2a7ea19
  3. Dec 19, 2022
  4. Oct 31, 2022
  5. Oct 26, 2022
  6. May 25, 2022
  7. May 24, 2022
  8. Apr 25, 2022
  9. Mar 10, 2022
  10. Mar 09, 2022
  11. Dec 20, 2021
  12. Nov 17, 2021
  13. Jul 14, 2021
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      Prepend reporting lines with the zfs target name · 6e536df5
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      This will let us use zfs_target as the name of a subtest which
      in turn means we would be able to separately log and graph multiple
      backup targets associated with a single host.
      
      This change does not affect the current parsing performed when
      we input data into postgres: it uses non-anchored regexps to
      identify SpaceUsed etc so prepending extra text won't change
      anything
      0.9-ch85
      6e536df5
  14. Jul 09, 2021
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      Partial fix for behaviour where we see multiple backups for one task running at once · 3941a9df
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      In some versions of backup_queue (I think just on splot4 now), we use
      backup_log.isrunning as part of the logic to determine if a task should be
      enqueued. The problem is that scheduler.pl makes three writes on the table:
      
      1) an insert when the task is queued (a trigger sets isrunning='t' here)
      2) an update to set started_processing when the task begins (a trigger
         sets isrunning='f' here!!!!)
      3) an update to set ended_processing when the task finishes (a trigger
         again sets isrunning='f' here)
      
      Thus, being careful to only set isrunning='f' when a backup task is finished
      (i.e. when we set ended_processing=now() in scheduler.pl) seems sensible, and
      empirically does seem to lead to the right backup_queue without duplicates.
      
      This commit will only affect new setups of backup servers; the change has been
      deployed to live servers with an ad hoc script I've run.
      
      I think we only see this on splot4 because it has a very different definition of
      the backup_queue view to a) the one defined in this file, b) the one that's on
      all the other backup servers. If I just try to replace the view on splot4, though,
      any attempt to select from it just times out so there may be other relations on
      splot4 that need updating too.
      
      NB the obvious thing missing on splot4 is
      
      WHERE ((backup_log.backup_task_id = a.backup_task_id) AND (backup_log.ended_processing IS NULL))) < 1))
      
      which feels like a hack but nonetheless ensures in practice that we don't get
      duplicate queued tasks.
      3941a9df
  15. Jul 08, 2021
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      Ensure pg-dump-script includes a dump of roles · 67d141b5
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      We don't always need the role data, if the presumption is that we'll
      be doing a pg_restore in conjunction with an ansible role which creates
      all required roles. But, having a copy of the role data will never hurt!
      It also gives us a straightforward way of restoring a database to a
      standalone postgres instance without having to have provisioned a
      dedicated VM with the relevant ansible roles.
      0.9-ch84
      67d141b5
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      Add a script to do a postgres backup via pg_dump · 5b4a8757
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      At present we use myriad one-off per host scripts to do a pg_dump,
      and they all do (or probably should do) the same thing. In combination
      with setting options in the host's backup config file, I think
      this single script covers all our routine pg backups.
      0.9-ch83
      5b4a8757
    • Dr Adam Thorn's avatar
      Call PRE and POST with same args as zfs-rsync.sh · e01d7ebc
      Dr Adam Thorn authored
      we were just passing the hostname. Adding extra args should
      not impact any existing script, but will let us write better/
      more maintainable/deduplicated PRE scripts
      0.9-ch82
      e01d7ebc
  16. Jun 29, 2021
    • Dr Catherine Pitt's avatar
      Add an outline script for moving a whole zpool · 7ae60f97
      Dr Catherine Pitt authored
      This came about because a disk has failed on nest-backup, which only has
      subdirectory backups of nest-filestore-0 and so move-machine.sh was not
      going to be helpful - it assumes all tasks for a machine are on the same
      zpool which isn't true there. In this case I did the move by hand, but
      have sketched out the steps in the script in the hope that next time we
      have to do this we'll do it by looking at the script and running bits by
      hand, then improve the script a bit, and continue until it's usable.
      7ae60f97
  17. Jun 18, 2021
  18. Jun 15, 2021
    • Dr Catherine Pitt's avatar
      Add prepare-redhat script · 83e54e26
      Dr Catherine Pitt authored
      prepare-nondebian does not work on RedHat machines running MySQL as the
      paths are different, so providing a fixed version. prepare-nondebian has
      historically been used more widely than just RedHat, hence the decision
      to provide a RedHat-specific version and not just edit it.
      0.9-ch78
      83e54e26
  19. Jun 08, 2021
  20. May 12, 2021
    • Dr Catherine Pitt's avatar
      Fix a bug in the move-machine script · 75db08dc
      Dr Catherine Pitt authored
      The generation of the command to unexport NFS filesystems could generate
      an invalid command. Leading spaces were not being stripped, and in cases
      where there is more than one backup target for a machine we need to
      unexport every target. Because we also had 'set -e' in operation at this
      point, the script would fail there and never clean up the moved ZFS. I
      don't mind if we fail to unexport; if that's subsequently a problem for
      removing the ZFS then the script will fail at that point.
      
      This change makes the script generate better exportfs -u commands and
      not exit if they fail.
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      75db08dc
  21. Apr 30, 2021
    • Dr Catherine Pitt's avatar
      Make database connections short-lived · e40c1a55
      Dr Catherine Pitt authored
      The code used to open a database connection for each thread and leave
      them open for as long as the scheduler ran. This worked reasonably well
      until we moved to PostgreSQL 13 on Focal, although the scheduler would
      fail if the database was restarted because there was no logic to
      reconnect after a connection dropped.
      
      On Focal/PG13 the connection for the 'cron' thread steadily consumes
      memory until it has exhausted everything in the machine. This appears to
      be a Postgres change rather than a Perl DBI change: the problem can be
      reproduced by sitting in psql and running 'select * from backup_queue'
      repeatedly. Once or twice a minute an instance of this query will cause
      the connection to consume another MB of RAM which is not released until
      the database connection is closed. The cron thread runs that query every
      two seconds. My guess is it's something peculiar about the view that
      query selects from - the time interval thing is interesting.
      This needs more investigation.
      
      But in the meantime I'd like to have backup servers that don't endlessly
      gobble RAM, so this change makes the threads connect to the database
      only when they need to, and closes the connection afterwards. This
      should also make things work better over database restarts but that's
      not been carefully tested.
      0.9-ch75
      e40c1a55
  22. Jan 18, 2021
  23. Jan 06, 2021
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