[366] in Athena_Backup_System
9 December Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey On the Road)
Tue Dec 10 16:01:55 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 14:13:45 EST
From: wdc@MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey On the Road)
To: athena-backup@MIT.EDU
Agenda:
Coverage for Vrt after he leaves.
Prepare for a dump out of the Athena Cell.
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Athena Cell Dump
After exams are over.
But 2 ops folks go on vacation immediately after exams.
Also need to wait for the regular archive dumps to be complete.
Are there file servers that are not critical?
Important issue is the creation of the ABS database
for the Athena Cell.
Figure the testing for week of 6 January.
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Coverage for Vrt.
We lack anyone to coordinate the testing.
Consider getting a contractor in for a month to do testing
if it takes a while to bring in someone new.
How will we finish crippled mode?
Change the implementation to be closer to the main-line
system implementation. (See Below.)
Issue:
We seem too often to suffer because people get pulled off ABS
to work on something else.
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What do we mean by testing?
Operational and workflow testing by Ted.
Unit testing.
The dump/restore/compare test.
miki takes vrt's list, fleshes out, and puts into public place.
Scope of unfinished testing will be evaluated.
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Miki will copy first 30 pages of her spec and distribute
We will review that portion Thursday.
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wdc will put Karlyne's draft into ABS locker.
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More discussion of implementing crippled mode.
Ted says that bringing up a new Oracle with no data in it
is easier for him than switching to a new UI
that implements a separate crippled mode.
Miki says that the Restore Foreign tape command that she
is writing for restoring old AFS backups can be expanded
to handle doing a restore of a tape with a blank oracle.
Issue of not needing a DBA to do this tiny Oracle.
Issue of how to merge the tiny Oracle with the production
ABS Oracle when it comes back.
4 important points
To be able to perform dumps.
Need to be able to easily create a database.
Should be able to restore even if DB is empty.
To be able to find what tape to restore from.
