Our existing nfs backup mechanism relies on bdsync. bdsync is no longer packaged for debian; backporting it is an option but it also appears that "rsync --copy-devices" may be the modern way to accomplish the same goal.
Unfortunately the version of rsync on the old backup hosts does not support --copy-devices so there will need to be host-switching going on somewhere.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | aborrero | T217891 CloudVPS: rework codfw deployments | |||
| Resolved | aborrero | T219626 codfw1dev: bootstrap cloudcontrol servers in mitaka/stretch | |||
| Resolved | Andrew | T220096 codfw1dev: decide which DBs to reallocate to clouddb2001-dev | |||
| Open | None | T229559 CloudVPS: codfw1dev: database backup for clouddb2001-dev.codfw.wmnet | |||
| Resolved | Andrew | T224528 rack/setup codfw: cloudbackup2001.codfw.wmnet and cloudbackup2002.codfw.wmnet | |||
| Resolved | aborrero | T234683 Build, package bdsync for Buster |
@aborrero, do you have intuition about whether packaging bdsync for Buster is hard or easy?
bdsync was never packaged in Debian, it's an internally packaged tool (originally done by Chase), from a quick glance rebuilding it for buster should be straightforward.
I can do the buster build. Perhaps we should consider uploading this package to Debian, it should be interesting for other people too.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-10-07T11:16:57Z] <arturo> added bdsync 0.11.1-1~wmf1 to buster-wikimedia (T234683)
@arturo if you wanted to submit the package upstream there's at least one other person who would appreciate it.