- May 03, 2023
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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)
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- Jan 05, 2023
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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.
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- Dec 19, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
This can happen for a number of reasons: - child ZFS has a quota bigger than its parent - we have over-provisioned such that the sum of quotas is bigger than the disk - an individual ZFS has a quota bigger than the disk
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
..and convert such things to human-friendly versions if required. This is to facilitate extra checks where we want to make numeric calculations involving quotas and other similar properties.
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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- Oct 31, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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- Oct 26, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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- May 25, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
As of b4b89ed3 we need the prepare script to exit zero on success. We only use the stdout from this command, not the return code, for determining if the target is a xen VM.
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- May 24, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
This has been silently masking failures, which is a Bad Thing. The only errors I've spotted so far are ones hopefully fixed by ad91da90, which has the effect that we've been backing up more things than we needed (which is better than the opposite possibility, at least!)
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
c714a331 introduced an annoying bug here. If the filenames piped to xargs include an apostrophe, xargs will complain and stop. We have thus, in practice, been including all files that appear in the list after /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/ringtones/Sam's Song.ogg !! Also, we've not been properly handling filenames with spaces in, and perhaps other filenames too. We thus null-terminate the filenames for ourself. Because I want to get to the point where we can have a sensible return code from the prepare script, this commit also adds some set -e commands to try to ensure errors bubble up. This is a little tedious to achieve due to all the subshells in this script. For the same reason, we split off the "diff" command into a "set +e" block because diff returns non-zero if differences are found. We do not consider that to be an error!
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
We think the intention of the old version of this block is "if mysql is running, dump the databases". The check has been buggy for a long long time: it reads the contents of my.cnf ... which nowadays just has some !includedir directives. This lead to setting SOCKET="" and, it turns out, [ -S "" ] returns true. The main intention of this part of the prepare script is to backup vaguely normal machines running a simple mysql database, such as small group webservers. We thus don't need to consider every eventuality.
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
On servers we configure this via ansible. On workstations it is not having the desired effect because the stock logrotate.conf includes the line ... and so the simple grep thinks it's already configured! I'll add an ansible task in due course to actually configure this.
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- Apr 25, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
Now that we use pygrub, these dirs are populated by quite a lot of files that we don't want to back up but are dynamically built by the kernel/related packages so do not make it into the the prepared "excludes" file
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- Mar 10, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
i.e. we can now simply delete from host where hostname='example.ch.private.cam.ac.uk'; without having to chase the foreign keys. I've made the equivalent change on our live backup servers with an ad hoc script.
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- Mar 09, 2022
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
i.e. send the ZFS, update db records and copy the config files. The sql inserts should broadly mirror those done when setting up a new backup, though with field values matching those in the source database rather than just using the defaults. This script has so only been tested for the case of moving a "simple" backup where a host has a single backup task and no special config. It's quite likely there'll be bugs to fix for other cases that we'll find in due course.
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
I'm about to add a script to send a backup to a different backup server. It's thus probably best if the script names describe their functions in a little more detail
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- Dec 20, 2021
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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- Nov 17, 2021
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
https://tickets.ch.cam.ac.uk/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=211460 e.g. RT 211460, 211465. spri-musuem-rt-2025 had been set up with an adhoc script which was not properly tidying up after itself due to bailing early on a "set -e" error.
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- Jul 14, 2021
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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
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- Jul 09, 2021
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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.
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- Jul 08, 2021
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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.
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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.
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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
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- Jun 29, 2021
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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.
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- Jun 18, 2021
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
This is just a change to the packaging, not to the actual deployed contents of the package. This deb has quite a few conffiles which made unattended-upgrades flag the mistake when I tried to upgrade. We should now have the right list of conffiles: makedeb@08d12c3c
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
I don't think there's a sensible default quota; the value for a workstation will be very different to a tiny VM, for example.
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- Jun 15, 2021
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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.
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- Jun 08, 2021
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
This is needed on focal if a client is to be able to access snapshots over NFS. From the docs I don't see why we didn't also need this option on xenial, but empirically, we need it on focal. (e.g. RT-207229)
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- May 12, 2021
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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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- Apr 30, 2021
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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.
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- Jan 18, 2021
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Dr Catherine Pitt authored
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- Jan 06, 2021
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Dr Adam Thorn authored
As of focal a bunch of top-level dirs are symlinks (eg /lib -> /usr/lib) but the deb packages still deploy files to the symlink rather than the real dir. Thus if we just take the contents of all the *.list files we end up not excluding lots of files that are in fact provided by debs
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