openSUSE admin

Thanks to our monitoring, we get aware of a "nearly full" source server partition for build.opensuse.org in time. (The size of the submitted sources inside the openSUSE Build Service is currently more than 7.4 TB, which already includes a deduplication!)

So we started to move to a new storage array using the "pvmove" command, but for currently unknown reasons this stopped in the middle of the transfer :-(

As result of the attempts to stop the running process, the database (also used for software.opensuse.org) and some files got damaged. So we spent most of the weekend to restore files from the last backup and finish the migration.

Now everything has been moved to a new storage and is up and running again. But that one reminded us that there is never a need for a backup - just for restore... ;-)