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

[leftyfb]

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I already backup every night and keep 3 months worth of bi-nightly
backups in 3 locations for free.

The issue isn't restoring our configs but being able to fix something
should it not boot properly as it is a virtual machine and we don't have
any sort of OOB access.

On 10/28/2011 07:26 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> I backup the BLU server to Amazon S2, retaining seven daily
> and 12 monthly snapshots, and it's been costing a little less
> than $2 per month,
> 
> I only back up
> 
>    * /etc
>    * /usr/local
>    * /var/lib/mailman/lists
>    * /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*.mbox/*.mbox
>    * /var/named
>    * /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> plus the outputs of
> 
>     * pg_dumpall" (for postgresql)
>    * mysqldump -A
>    * rpm -qa
> 
> This was enough to completely restore all services on a new machine
> after we suffered a simultaneous two-drive failure a few months ago.
> After putting a temporary loaner machine in place at the colo facility,
> restoring from the backups and making the new system live took
> less than two hours.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:20 PM, leftyfb <leftyfb at left-click.org> wrote:
> I've tried plugging away at it. No idea why it's trying to pull in
> squeeze packages. There's no squeeze repo's in sources.list and there's
> nothing in soures.list.d/.
> 
> It looks like we might have to upgrade to squeeze. I talked to Steve
> Pomeroy who got us the VM instance at MIT for us. He's going to build a
> new squeeze vm on a new server this weekend. We'll have to
> reinstall/setup anything we had before on it. Luckily I do nightly
> backups of critical files and can still do a full backup if need be.
> 
> On 10/28/2011 03:35 PM, Mick Timony wrote:
>>>> Post you /etc/apt/sources.list . Some of the packages might be pinned to
>>>> Squeeze.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:doctormo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Bit of a bother with the server, not sure why the package is from
>>>>     squeeze.
>>>>
>>>>     Martin,
>>>>
>>>>     On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 11:50 -0400, James Gray wrote:
>>>>     > apt-get install apache2.2-common apache2-utils
>>>>
>>>>     doctormo at ugeeks~/$ 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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>>>> Mick Timony
>>>> ---
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>>>> -- S. Beckett
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>>>>
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