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03 Tuesday

  • went to Markham campus to fill out paperwork for HR.
  • troubleshooting builds. Packages needing gcc, which needs binutils, builds to solve dependencies.
  • meeting with Chris.

04 Wednesday

  • troubleshooting build failures, gcc not building.
  • troubleshooting space issue on arm5, arm6. No root fs mounted
  • work on solving gcc deps.
  • proposal for fsoss

05 Thursday

  • attempting to track down issue with gcc
  • builds of additional packages required
  • edit build-previous.py script to change naming

06 Friday

  • work on back procedure.
  • originally attempting to use rsync and ssh keys, but changed due to security.
  • started to use bacula

09 Monday

  • checked logs for information regarding build failure of gcc
  • implemented bacula, problems with version mismatch, resolved.
  • edit gcc spec file
  • spoke with Dawn regarding IO position.

10 Tuesday

  • bacula working for backups, tweaking of backup management
  • edit gcc again, another failed build attempt
  • final test configuration of bacula completed. Backup scheduled to run weekly full backups every sunday at 9pm, and nightly incremental backups at 11:10PM. File being backed up from hongkong include - /etc, /share/koji, /var/lib/pgsql. Later tweaks will include postgresql dump to be backed up instead of the entire directory. Back ups are compressed with gzip for travel across the network.
  • packaging of mkrootfs completed however issues running script. Appears to be intended to run on arm machine rather then x86.

11 Wednesday

  • backup job failed to run, no log information as to why, troubleshooting.
  • backup jobs edited, problem should now be resolved. Full backup completed. Compressed 27G. Incremental backups each night at 11:05, full backups every sunday at 9pm. Backups are kept for 30 days.
  • completed mkrootfs-f12 packaging and testing. works on an arm based system.

12 Thursday

  • tweak to mkrootfs rpm to include repo, edit repo so not enabled.
  • small tweaks to bacula config files as backup catalog job was not completing successfully.
  • upgraded uboot on experimental guru.
  • loaded new kernel Chris compiled.
  • plug boots!