Re: Upgrading server
By: Digital Man to All on Sat Nov 05 2022 03:31 pm

Re: Upgrading server
By: Digital Man to All on Wed Aug 24 2022 12:44 pm

The server currently-known-as 'cvs.synchro.net' is an aging quad-core AMD (A10 PRO-7800B) based HP workstation with 16GB of DDR3 RAM running Debian Linux 10.9 on a SATA SSD. This server has a lot of duties, including the hosting of [www].synchro.net, ftp.synchro.net, cvs.synchro.net, wiki.synchro.net, git.synchro.net, gitlab.synchro.net and provides the primary domain name services for *.synchro.net.

I'm in the process of upgrading this system to an new Intel i7-17200 based HP workstation with 32GB of DDR4 RAM running Debian Linux 11.4 on an NVMe SSD (bought it on sale for $800 from costco.com). This should speed-up a lot of Git-related things quite a bit (e.g. CI pipeline/builds) when the upgrade is complete.

Okay, the migration is finally going to happen today, so there will be some down time.

Update/status:

- Bind/Dynamic-DNS service migrated successfully
*.synchro.net hostnames are resolving and dynamically updated
- GitLab migrated successfully, still on v14.7.2 - new SSH key (sorry)!
Will upgrade to the latest (v15.x) soon
- DokuWiki/PHP-FPM migrated successfully
Upgraded to latest PHP-FPM and DokuWiki
- Synchronet migrated successfully
still resolving lingering broken symlinks and permissions
- proFTPd migrated (ftp.synchro.net) successfully
- SpamAssassin migrated successfully (new spam db)
- CVS/cvsweb/viewcvs *not* migrated and probably not going to bother
(will need to continue to find and fix any links to cvsweb/viewcvs)

Still yet to do: ZNC, Murmur, automated backups, more stuff I'm forgetting
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