Queue system administration
To do list
The following is a list of items requiring attention, in order of priority:
- Reinstall OS on Pegasus.
- Measure usage on each machine using PBS/Torque accounting tools.
- Clean up our junk in NE47-181 and E40-008: throw away boxes, remove old Cyrus2 cluster.
- Find better way to manage user data after they leave the group
Backup services
Backup service for our four clusters is provided by MIT TSM. This comes at a cost of $65 per month per system.
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First, establish connection to the TSM server.
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$ sudo dsmc
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Next, you can see the version of the file stored on the TSM server.
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$ query backup /path/filename
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You can restore the file to its original location, or restore the file to a new location. For restoring folders with subdirectories use option --sub=yes.
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$ restore backup /path/filename
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$ restore backup “/path/filename” /newpath/newfilename
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3. TSM software for linux can be downloaded from the IS&T website. The installation procedure for a new Ubuntu version is described here.
4. The older version of the software is written for RHL5 and is available as an rpm. 4. Install the "ksh" package and the "alien" package. ksh is needed since several of the scripts included with TSM use ksh. More important is "alien" as, this allows users to install RPM packages on Ubuntu or other Debian-based distributions.
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$ sudo apt-get install ksh alien |
5. Use The next step is to use alien to install the appropriate RPMs:
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$ sudo alien \-i \--scripts TIVsm-API.i386.rpm TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm |
6. There are several other libraries which are required by TSM like libstdc++.so.5 etc. Download and install the required files from apt-get or some other source.
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sudo yum localinstall compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum localinstall compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm
sudo yum localinstall TIVsm-API.i386.rpm
sudo yum localinstall TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm
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The next steps are to edit the dsm.opt and dsm.sys files as described in the instructions. Those files include the default location for the backup logs:
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/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmsched.log and
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmerror.log
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Finally, running the dsmc program as root will let the user enter the initial password. Next, a line can be added to /etc/inittab to automatically start the dsmc scheduler; to initialize it after installing, the root user can simply execute the dsmc command with the "sched" argument:
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# nohup /usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &
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TSM registration information
The four clusters backed up with TSM have the following registration information. The TSM system automatically assigns an initial password (newpass), but according to the registration e-mail, this will be automatically changed to a new, encrypted password, and stored on the machine after the first connection to the TSM servers.
Darius2
Server: oc11-bk-ent-1.mit.edu
Nodename: DARIUS2.CSBI
Schedule: BUS-0700
Darius1
Server: backup-i.mit.edu
Nodename: DARIUS1.CSBI
Schedule: BUS-2400
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