[H-SASIG] Hickups during the Humbug move and sasig subscriptions

[Russell Stuart]

You will have received quite a few emails from sasig at lists.humbug.org.au
in the past few days.  One of them said you had been automatically
unsubscribed from this list.  Clearly since you are receiving this, that
wasn't true.

As I mentioned in general at humbug, the move was forced because the old
VM, which was controlled by Stephen Thorne, went down.  I don't know why
- it just disappeared.  I gather Stephen was as surprised as we were.

The move to the new VM consisted of a five of tasks:

1.  Purchase a new VM.  This one is owned by Humbug.  The credentials
    need to manage it can be downloaded from the bottom of the SysAdmin
    Wiki page: http://www.humbug.org.au/SysAdmin

2.  Shut the old VM down, so the backup is current.

3.  Restore the rdiff-image backup onto the new VM.  This should and
    did take a few minutes.

4.  Migrate to the current version of Debian.

5.  Update the DNS entries.

I expected the majority of the work to arise from stage 4 (the update to
Debian stable), and it did - many hours of it.

However it was stage 2 (shut down the old VM) which caused the most
surprises.  It kept arising from the dead, zombie like.  (Remember we
don't have any control over it.)   It was the Zombie that unsubscribed
you from it's lists, and send a lot of other SPAM besides.  Stephen
assumes me the Zombie has now been re-formatted, so further surprises
seem unlikely.

As far as I can tell the move is now complete.  The the wiki is up, the
mailing lists are working with all archives available, planet.humbug is
updating as it should and most importantly the hourly backups are
ticking over reliably.