Drop wikidata-dev project’s federated-wikis and federated-wikis2 instances
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	Jul 31 2019, 1:19 PM

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Prompted by @Andrew’s instance downtime announcement:

Please let me know if you need to schedule a more specific window
for your downtime. Better yet, if any of the listed VMs are defunct and
can simply be deleted, please do that now and save me some time!

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wikidata-dev: federated-wikis
wikidata-dev: federated-wikis2

Neither VM was ever properly documented on Wikitech, as far as I’m aware (neither on the current documentation, where I describe their purpose as “unknown, presumably to test federation”, nor on the old documentation). Both of them contain long-outdated versions of MediaWiki and Wikibase (2017), and as they both run on Debian Jessie with PHP 5.6, updating them is not possible since MediaWiki now requires PHP 7. They also seem to be broken (neither can access its database, though the errors are different), and I see no reason to spend any time investigating the problems. Unless someone speaks up to let me know they’re still required, I’ll delete them on Friday (after taking a disk backup, just in case).

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Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE created this task.Jul 31 2019, 1:19 PM

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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-08-02T12:55:15Z] <Lucas_WMDE> federated-wikis instance deleted (T229411)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2019-08-02T13:04:20Z] <Lucas_WMDE> federated-wikis2 instance deleted (T229411)

Done – I have backups on my laptop in case anybody needs them:

$ ssh federated-wikis.eqiad.wmflabs sudo tar -czpS --one-file-system / > /var/backups/cloud-vps/federated-wikis-$(date -I).tar.gz                
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names             
tar: /tmp/pymp-388Pvf/listener-UeK6zt: socket ignored   
tar: /tmp/pymp-Jw2l6X/listener-qiCKd9: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-8Skrn_/listener-2UgkuD: socket ignored 
tar: /tmp/pymp-0vKqDe/listener-pIubMv: socket ignored         
tar: /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-M4JbFn/listener-b7q6zx: socket ignored                   
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets

$ time ssh federated-wikis2.eqiad.wmflabs sudo tar -czpS --one-file-system / > /var/backups/cloud-vps/federated-wikis2-$(date -I).tar.gz         
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /tmp/pymp-GAesP_/listener-WikqsX: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-3q3_AE/listener-VvbRyH: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-P3BKkv/listener-SkBqt2: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-KVLeiU/listener-tetdof: socket ignored
tar: /tmp/pymp-gfF6IP/listener-oJyKYH: socket ignored
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets

real    6m53,585s
user    0m0,031s
sys     0m0,031s

$ du -sch /var/backups/cloud-vps/federated-wikis{,2}-2019-08-02.tar.gz
3,7G    /var/backups/cloud-vps/federated-wikis-2019-08-02.tar.gz
3,2G    /var/backups/cloud-vps/federated-wikis2-2019-08-02.tar.gz
6,8G    total

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