User:Paul.W/august2010
03 Tuesday
- went to Markham campus to fill out paperwork for HR.
- troubleshooting builds. Packages needing gcc, which needs binutils, builds to solve dependencies.
- meeting with Chris.
04 Wednesday
- troubleshooting build failures, gcc not building.
- troubleshooting space issue on arm5, arm6. No root fs mounted
- work on solving gcc deps.
- proposal for fsoss
05 Thursday
- attempting to track down issue with gcc
- builds of additional packages required
- edit build-previous.py script to change naming
06 Friday
- work on back procedure.
- originally attempting to use rsync and ssh keys, but changed due to security.
- started to use bacula
09 Monday
- checked logs for information regarding build failure of gcc
- implemented bacula, problems with version mismatch, resolved.
- edit gcc spec file
- spoke with Dawn regarding IO position.
10 Tuesday
- bacula working for backups, tweaking of backup management
- edit gcc again, another failed build attempt
- final test configuration of bacula completed. Backup scheduled to run weekly full backups every sunday at 9pm, and nightly incremental backups at 11:10PM. File being backed up from hongkong include - /etc, /share/koji, /var/lib/pgsql. Later tweaks will include postgresql dump to be backed up instead of the entire directory. Back ups are compressed with gzip for travel across the network.
- packaging of mkrootfs completed however issues running script. Appears to be intended to run on arm machine rather then x86.
11 Wednesday
- backup job failed to run, no log information as to why, troubleshooting.
- backup jobs edited, problem should now be resolved. Full backup completed. Compressed 27G. Incremental backups each night at 11:05, full backups every sunday at 9pm. Backups are kept for 30 days.
- completed mkrootfs-f12 packaging and testing. works on an arm based system.
12 Thursday
- tweak to mkrootfs rpm to include repo, edit repo so not enabled.
- small tweaks to bacula config files as backup catalog job was not completing successfully.
