[Olpc-sysadmin] Recipe:migratewiki

[Ed McNierney]

Fred -

Thanks!  I've been doing a lot of work in wiki-land, with help from  
cjb, in order to keep things running under the daily onslaught of  
users from Uruguay.  Things are better, but still not stable and  
reliable.  So I still agree (as you mention) that a few "keep things  
running" changes will need to happen first.

I need to spend some time updating the documentation on where things  
are, as will do so in the next few days when I stop tweaking things.   
The major change, however, is that owl.laptop.org has been completely  
reconfigured with a RAID 1+0 array and is now designed to serve as a  
MySQL database server for the wiki and other systems.  Over the  
weekend I migrated the databases for the public wiki, team, and  
internalwiki sites and they are now all up and running using owl  
(instead of pedal) as their MySQL server.  Pedal is still grossly  
overloaded during daytime hours (in Uruguay) and that's a serious  
problem because it stalls our mailman and postfix services.  On an  
almost daily basis someone asks me why they're unable to scan  
documents with the network scanner in the office, and it's because too  
many children in Uruguay are downloading Activities from the wiki!!

I will make page updates to the Recipe:migratewiki page as well in  
order to keep it up to date with the changes I've been making.  Thanks  
again for the help.

	- Ed

On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:

> On the road to an upgraded wiki.laptop.org, we have prepared a  
> migration plan for review, http://vig.laptop.org/wiki/index.php/Recipe:migratewiki
>
> With the limitation of current resources, item 1 on the plan is
> 1. Plan and execute a series of learning exercises that will allow  
> the VIG apprentices to practice and document the steps necessary for  
> a safe and effective wiki migration.
>
> Ed is planning some critical reconfigurations of w.l.o that will  
> probably proceed in advance of the processes outlined above.
>
> The Recipe:migratewiki page can become documentation for volunteer  
> and other system administrators seeking instructions for servicing  
> regional or local wikis or assisting with OLPC's wikis.
>
> If you are aware of similar or supporting references, please respond  
> here or link them on the wiki page.
>
> Please contribute to the page and its linked pages with questions or  
> suggestions.
>
> Thank you.          --Fred
>
>
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