February 2019 in sysadmin land
Hi Tor, Here's what February looked like to the sysadmin team. # What's been done - We have hired anarcat! - Experimenting with full disk encryption of VM's. - GitLab VM setup (re: #29402). - Migration of the CiviCRM systems to new VM's with a recent OS. - Experimenting with Prometheus for trend analysis (re: #29681). - The ordinary resolving of requests and bug reports, as can be followed better over at [tickets]. [tickets] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/report/44 # Upcoming new things - Getting anarcat up and running. - Trying out NextCloud for some set of Tor people, as a replacement for SVN, Sandstorm and possibly more (re: #29415). # Fact of the month Our backup server holds system backups for 77 hosts. Currently there are 338 full backups and 11886 incremental backups consuming 13 TB. Apart from system backups, we have PostgreSQL backups for five hosts, eating another 280 GB.
Hi Tom, Our Sandstorm instance is not being maintained. Whether the Sandstorm software is being maintained or not I'll leave for someone who knows better. The fact that our instance doesn't have a service owner is in itself a reason to shut it down. Arguments voiced for migrating to NextCloud include: software momentum; shared calendar and tasks, collaborative editing of documents and spreadsheets; kabana boards; several sysadmins already running NC instances for other things. I suppose that the last argument is not a factual merit of the system, but it is an explanation of how we ended up with a task of finding out if NC is good enough for Tor. Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> wrote Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:06:26 +0000:
Linus Nordberg:
At Tails we started using Nextcloud Talk for some of our WebRTC voice meetings. Jitsi has been a bit unreliable lately and Nextcloud Talk seems to work at least as good for now and we have more control over the infrastructure. https://nextcloud.com/talk/ -- sajolida
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