We will run fallback servers using Arun's Guix machine configuration. Outside the system container there are a few dependencies, particularly MariaDB and a number of file directories.

assigned: pjotrp
priority: medium
type: system administration
keywords: system administration, GN, tux01, tux02, tux04, balg01

Prepare backups to copy to the new machines

Note that copying from the new machines is 10x faster.

[X] Copy backup from tux01 to balg01
[X] Copy backup from tux01 to tux04
[X] Copy backup from balg01 to tb
[+] Make sure CRON works on tux01 for balg01
[X] Make sure CRON works on tux01 for tux04
[X] Make sure CRON works on tux01 for space
[ ] Make sure CRON works on tb
[ ] Create borg-borg on tb
[ ] After borg-borg add CRON `borg prune' on tux01

Update guix

[X] Make sure guix is on a large partition (200Gb)
[X] Update guix in /usr/local/guix-profiles
[X] Disable default guix on Debian
[X] Reboot
[X] Update nftables

Having issues with sdd drive.

Install mariadb

[X] Extract DB from backup on a fast partition
[X] Install mariadb using guix
[X] Add to systemd

Unpack genotype files and other files

[X] borg extract genotype files

/usr/local/guix-profiles/gn-latest/bin/borg extract /export2/data/wrk/tux01/borg-genenetwork::borg-GN2-home-20240218-10:00-Sun --progress

[X] extract redis
[+] backup and extract sqlite for auth, e.g. auth_prod_20240218.db

Guix system container

[X] Assess gemtext documentation
[ ] Check tux02 configurations

The main example lives in

we create fallback.scm, see

fire-up-genenetwork-system-container.gmi

[ ] Set up guix channels
[ ] Set up guix gcroot
[ ] Update systemd
[ ] Add gn-guile to configuration
[ ] Test, test, test

More info

Sheepdog monitoring

[ ] Move host to tb
[ ] Update all clients
[ ] Add monitoring new fallback services

Continuous updates

[ ] Mariadb
[ ] Redis
[ ] Auth
[ ] Files

Remaining issues

See

Fallbacks

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