[H-ADMIN] Librarian Report

[Stephen Thomas]

Here's a brief summary of things since the last exec meeting.  

HUMBUG Library
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    No changes to previous HUMBUG equipment, however Daniel 
    Mashonkin has been nice enoug to donate 4 desktop machines.  They 
    will most likely be used for testing / demo machines -- missing a 
    few parts but I'll see what I can do about sourcing them:

        1. Compaq Serial # H930 CKG6 0050, CPU Pentium 3 (Katmai)
            450 MHz,  128M of ram, 20G HD, CD Rom
        2. Compaq Serial # H140 FHGZ 003H, CPU Pentium 3 (Katmai)
            450 MHZ,  0 Ram,       20G HD, No CD Rom
        3. Compaq Serial # H033 DBR5 0019, CPU Pentium 3 (Copermine)
            666 MHZ,  128M Ram,    No HD,
        4. Compaq Serial # H950 CKG6 0031, CPU Pentium 3 (Copermine)
            450 MHZ,  128M Ram,    6G HD,

Excalibur (linode)
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         - Backups available (these must have been sighted).
             2009-10-14

         - Date a backup was tested by a complete restore
           from backup only.
             2009-10-14

         - Percentage of disk space used.
             Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
             /dev/xvda             7.9G  3.6G  4.2G  47% /

         - List of packages that aren't up-to-date security wise.
             N/A

         - Any major configuration changes since the last exec meeting.
             trac has been installed with standard packages
             instance under /srv/trac/sysadmin

         - Changes to schedule of people with access to the box.
             *none since last meeting*

    During late October we had 6 hours of downtime (taking our uptime 
    down to 99.1% if we happened to be a business :) ), this was due to 
    an unexpected linode outage involving their hypervisors breaking, 
    no data was lost though.

    In an effort to be able to run our environment in as many 
    situations as possible, I'm working with Russell on a set of scripts
    that should let the 'production excalibur' run entirely from a 
    chroot too.


-- Stephen Thomas