IRCC-Hyperkitty/SOP

Seneca-Specific SOP
This SOP is specific to the environment at Seneca CDOT since it refers to specific hosts, configurations, and tools. It is intended solely as a reference for the OSTEP team at CDOT, but the content may be useful to readers in other contexts.

Introduction

This page covers all the Hyperkitty/Postorius/Mailman3 maintenance information for IRCC instance. All the services are running inside a docker container.

Docker

Login to a running container

1. Login to colo server and become root

ssh colo
sudo -i

2a. Run hyperkitty-docker.sh under the root home folder. The script should automatically attach to the running container, or start a new container if there is no container is running.

/root/hyperkitty-docker.sh

2b. OR Manually attach to running container

# Checkout container name
docker ps
# Attach to the Hyperkitty docker container
docker attach <container_name>

3. Now you should get the bash prompt inside the container

Start a new container

1. Login to colo server and become root

ssh colo
sudo -i

2a. Run hyperkitty-docker.sh under the root home folder. The script should automatically attach to the running container, or start a new container if there is no container is running.

/root/hyperkitty-docker.sh

2b. OR Manually start a new container

# Checkout the latest image name
docker images
# Start a container
docker run -it -p <IP_ADDRESS>:80:80 \
                       -p <IP_ADDRESS>:443:443 \
                       -p <IP_ADDRESS>:25:25 \
                       --cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
                       --add-host rcc-icn.ca:127.0.0.1 \
                       --add-host forum.rcc-icn.ca:127.0.0.1 \
                       --add-host forum.admin.rcc-icn.ca:127.0.0.1 \
                       --add-host wiki.rcc-icn.ca:127.0.0.1 \
                       <IMAGE_NAME> bash

3. Run the following scripts inside the container

# Mount the SAN and start backup scripts in the background
start-services
# Start postfix, mailman ,and httpd
hk start

Backup

All the backups files are located under /Volume3/backup/colo on our SAN, mounted on /mnt/backup inside the container.

Backup facts

• Data is backed up every half an hour
• Backup copies is limited to 6000 copies(4 months of backups), the script will start deleting the oldest copy once the number of copies reach 6000
• duplicated backups are hard-linked automatically

There are several directories under /Volume3/backup/colo:

ircc_backups: compressed data backups of Mailman3, Postorius, Hyperkitty, and Mediawiki

ircc_logs: latest log files of the backup scripts

ircc_programs: Program files of Mailman3, Postorius, Hyperkitty, and Mediawiki (Manually backed up)