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Conclusion: ~34.87G of data (before compression) from files & databases spanning 5x distinct user accounts (osemain, osecivi, oseblog, oseforum, and microft). There was an additional user = 'osesurv' that I was unable to access. | Conclusion: ~34.87G of data (before compression) from files & databases spanning 5x distinct user accounts (osemain, osecivi, oseblog, oseforum, and microft). There was an additional user = 'osesurv' that I was unable to access. | ||
Note that | Note that Hetzner1 is a "dedicated shared" server, so we don't have root on the box, making investigation much more difficult (the admin who setup this box has long-since left OSE). | ||
=Purpose= | =Purpose= | ||
Revision as of 18:56, 6 July 2018
This article describes the change for deprecating our hetzner1 server after all its functions were migrated to the cheaper & more powerful hetzner2 server.
Status
2018-07-05
Michael Altfield began initial investigation of all accounts on hetzner1 to determine what to backup to glaicer before shutting down this server.
Conclusion: ~34.87G of data (before compression) from files & databases spanning 5x distinct user accounts (osemain, osecivi, oseblog, oseforum, and microft). There was an additional user = 'osesurv' that I was unable to access.
Note that Hetzner1 is a "dedicated shared" server, so we don't have root on the box, making investigation much more difficult (the admin who setup this box has long-since left OSE).
Purpose
When I (Michael Altfield) joined OSE over a year ago, we had 1 (out of 6) website on hetzner2 and 5 websites on hetzner1. Hetzner1 was originally
Hetzner1 refers to a shared hosting plan with Hetzner that we began using in 2011. It's a dedicated host, but without root access. It has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Processor, 4 GB RAM, 2x 400 GB Harddisks, and 1 Gbit/s Connection.
Hetzner2 refers to a dedicated server that we began using in 2016. It has root access, runs centos 7, and has 4 CPU cores, 64G RAM, and 2x 250G SSDs in a software RAID1.
Note that Hetzner1 is less powerful *and* more expensive. Hetzner1 costs 74.79 eur/mo while Hetzner2 costs 39.00 eur/mo.
At the time of the creation of this CHG, all known production websites that existed on Hetzner1 have been fully migrated onto Hetzner2. However, there's a lot of projects and data still on Hetzner1 that we're not sure is important or not. Therefore, this CHG exists to backup all data we can find to some durable & cheap backup server (we plan to use aws glacier) prior to shutting down Hetzner1 for about a month. If a month has passed and nothing has broken, we'll terminate our contract with Hetzner1 & stop (over)paying 75 eur/mo.
Points of Contact
Change being performed by: Michael Altfield
Service owners: by Catarina Mota & Marcin Jakubowski for Open Building Institute and Open Source Ecology