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Progress TiBS to full service

Project ID: 
122
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What: 

Description: The project covers the full integration of the TiBS backup system into DICE

Deliverables: A backup system configured and managed via LCFG and monitored via nagios

Why: 

Customer: Services Unit

Case statement: The management of something as complex as a backup system is fraught with opportunities for omissions and misconfigurations. This projject will allow is to configure and manage the TiBS backup software via LCFG and monitor it via nagios which will lead to a much more resilient service

When: 

Status: TiBS is already in use within the school but is currently hand configured.

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How: 

Proposal:

Resources: Knowledge of TiBS, LCFG and general backup principles.

Plan: See https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/ServicesUnitTibsLcfgification

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Dependencies: None

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Milestones

Proposed date Achieved date Name Description
2009-06-30 2009-07-01 Package Package up both client and server software into RPMS
2009-06-30 2009-07-01 create header Create header file for making necessary configuration changes to xinetd etc.
2009-08-14 2009-07-01 Identify config Produce a definitive list of which config files can be configured directly with LCFG and which need to be configured via TiBS.
2009-09-10 2009-09-11 lcfg-tibs v1 lcfg-tibs v1 - the initial version of the component capable of configuring TiBS
2009-09-25 deleted Milestone deleted
2009-11-27 deleted4 Milestone deleted
2009-11-17 2009-11-17 deploy v1 Deploy v1 of lcfg-tibs on our TiBS server
2009-10-30 deleted2 Milestone deleted
2009-11-06 deleted3 Milestone deleted
2009-11-27 deleted5 Milestone deleted