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@tinita I would like to reconsider this with you. As this is about updating packages on OBS we should try really hard to use a platform that is available to the community, i.e. not SUSE internal openplatform. I am sure we can find a good solution.

I asked in Slack about when engcloud will be shutdown.

We don't have a backup for the obs mirror host, so I started to rsync files, in case the machine gets turned off.

tinita wrote in #note-9:

We don't have a backup for the obs mirror host, so I started to rsync files, in case the machine gets turned off.

Where do the files end up? Somewhere on osd?

Where do the files end up? Somewhere on osd?

on my own laptop for now

We should discuss this again. As this is a High ticket, but effectively currently treated as a Low ticket. So either we figure out how to help out here to get it done asap or really re-consider the priority of it.

Will try and bring it up at the next opportunity this week

• Consider OpenPlatform (Harvester) as a fallback solution if GitHub does not work out: https://op-prg2.openplatform.suse.com/dashboard/home

We looked into that last week and created virtual machines via Virtualization Management in the qe namespace to test it out. The machine could also be setup by someone else to help @tinita. This includes checking what image and resources to use and how to make the machine available to the outside and ensuring multiple people in the team have access to it.

The cloud server was shutdown in the meantime. This should be done soon.

The cluster I created the VM on is in maintenance. It is supposed to take at least until the end of tuesday (tomorrow), so I can't work on it.

Installed munin for some basic monitoring: http://10.144.110.163/munin/

edit: new ip

Configured logrotate.

https://github.com/openSUSE/autoupdate-perl/pull/10

Updated a bunch of packages. Will continue tomorrow.

Taking regular backups is not yet supported in the currently used harvester version (1.2).
One can take manual VM Snapshots, VM Backups and Volume Snapshots. I tried out all three. The VM Backup has a note "The current backup target does not match the existing one." Not sure how to influence that as I couldn't select anything when creating it.

Still missing: I would like to have a basic alerting.

Updated https://confluence.suse.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=450594448 with the new OpenPlatform info

https://gitlab.suse.de/suse/wiki/-/merge_requests/6

All packages are uptodate.
I enabled the cronjobs:

IMAGE=registry.opensuse.org/home/tinita/cpanspec/container/containers/opensuse/autoupdate-perl
CPANSPEC_WRAP_BUILD_COMMAND="chgrp -R cpan ..; chmod -R g+rx ..; chmod -R g+rwx .; su cpanbuild -c '\$COMMAND'"

5 3 * * * podman run -i --rm -e HOME=/home/$USER -v$HOME:/home/$USER $IMAGE /home/$USER/autoupdate-perl/bin/fetch-cpan.sh >> $HOME/obs-mirror/logs/cpan.log 2>&1
5 4 * * * podman run -i --rm -e HOME=/home/$USER -v$HOME:/home/$USER -e CPANSPEC_WRAP_BUILD_COMMAND $IMAGE /home/$USER/autoupdate-perl/bin/update-dlp-cpan.sh >> $HOME/obs-mirror/logs/cpanupdate.log 2>&1

The vlan had to be changed, and the IP address is fixed now: 10.144.110.163

https://gitlab.suse.de/suse/wiki/-/merge_requests/6 is merged. You might want to consider https://github.com/openSUSE/os-update/ and maybe also systemd-mail-status, also mentioned on the os-update wiki page. Both are in openSUSE so just zypper in os-update systemd-mail-status and configure