[ubuntu-us-ma] Rev 82: Updated with current info for Oct 2011

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Fri Oct 28 23:26:41 UTC 2011


I backup the BLU server to Amazon S2, retaining seven daily
and 12 monthly snapshots, and it's been costing a little less
than $2 per month,

I only back up

   * /etc
   * /usr/local
   * /var/lib/mailman/lists
   * /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*.mbox/*.mbox
   * /var/named
   * /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys

plus the outputs of

    * pg_dumpall" (for postgresql)
   * mysqldump -A
   * rpm -qa

This was enough to completely restore all services on a new machine
after we suffered a simultaneous two-drive failure a few months ago.
After putting a temporary loaner machine in place at the colo facility,
restoring from the backups and making the new system live took
less than two hours.



On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:20 PM, leftyfb <leftyfb at left-click.org> wrote:
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> I've tried plugging away at it. No idea why it's trying to pull in
> squeeze packages. There's no squeeze repo's in sources.list and there's
> nothing in soures.list.d/.
>
> It looks like we might have to upgrade to squeeze. I talked to Steve
> Pomeroy who got us the VM instance at MIT for us. He's going to build a
> new squeeze vm on a new server this weekend. We'll have to
> reinstall/setup anything we had before on it. Luckily I do nightly
> backups of critical files and can still do a full backup if need be.
>
> On 10/28/2011 03:35 PM, Mick Timony wrote:
>> Post you /etc/apt/sources.list . Some of the packages might be pinned to
>> Squeeze.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com
>> <mailto:doctormo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Bit of a bother with the server, not sure why the package is from
>>     squeeze.
>>
>>     Martin,
>>
>>     On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 11:50 -0400, James Gray wrote:
>>     > apt-get install apache2.2-common apache2-utils
>>
>>     doctormo at ugeeks~/$ sudo apt-get install apache2.2-common apache2-utils
>>     [sudo] password for doctormo:
>>     Reading package lists... Done
>>     Building dependency tree
>>     Reading state information... Done
>>     apache2-utils is already the newest version.
>>     Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>     requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>     distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>     or been moved out of Incoming.
>>     The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>      apache2.2-common: Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.16-6+squeeze3) but it
>>     is not going to be installed
>>                        Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
>>     E: Broken packages
>>     doctormo at ugeeks~/$ sudo apt-get install perl
>>     Reading package lists... Done
>>     Building dependency tree
>>     Reading state information... Done
>>     Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>     requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>     distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>     or been moved out of Incoming.
>>     The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>      perl: Depends: libdb4.7 but it is not installable
>>     E: Broken packages
>>     doctormo at ugeeks~/$ sudo apt-get install libdb4.7
>>     Reading package lists... Done
>>     Building dependency tree
>>     Reading state information... Done
>>     Package libdb4.7 is not available, but is referred to by another
>>     package.
>>     This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>>     is only available from another source
>>     E: Package libdb4.7 has no installation candidate
>>
>>
>>
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>> ---
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>> -- S. Beckett
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