[tor-project] February 2019 in sysadmin land

[Tom Ritter]

I was wondering about Sandstorm. Is it unmaintained? Is it desirable
to migrate off it?

(I will miss it, I quite like it...)

-tom

On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 11:50, Linus Nordberg <linus at torproject.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
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