ubuntu LTS 12.04

Posted by socialtalker on March 13, 2012 at 8:42am

its my understanding that ubuntu's new version will be coming out at the end of april. that is about 6 weeks away. i intend to have several productions sites online by then. that means a total wipe out of the drive, right. can anyone point me to the instructions to saving my sites? would i use amazon s3 or something like that?

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Use s3fs for the backup folder

Posted by geofftech on March 13, 2012 at 11:41am

I have several BOA severs now (each with only one Octopus) of which I use s3fs to map the "backup" folder to Amazons S3. When I need to move a site, I do the following

Run a backup of the site on Server 1
Create the site on Server 2
Adjust DNS
Run a backup on Server 2 (note: this is a blank site on sever 2 at this point)
Copy the last backup from Server 1 over the top of the last backup of Server 2.
Restore the backup of Server 2.

I seems you could do somthing similar. Install s3fs and make sure you have all the sites backed up normally. Blow away the server and install the new Ubuntu, install the s3fs again. Recreate the sites and backup, overwrite and restore.

But it seems to me that this is wrong process for you as all your sites are already setup. I assume you will recreate the same domain names?? In that case, can you not copy off the platform with sites and restore them to the new image. MySQL as well.

Do you really want to move to 12.04 so quickly after it is released..... for production sites....

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Multiple servers

Posted by psegarel on March 13, 2012 at 11:57am

How did you go about setting your servers?

I've asked a similar question here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/216119

but haven't had a reply so far.

The confusion comes from the fact that one needs to install Barracuda before installing Octopus... and also that the management of the sites is done thru Octopus, not Barracuda! What was your approach?

It will be simple, and no re-install required

Posted by omega8cc on March 13, 2012 at 12:09pm

Barracuda will support major system upgrades between LTS versions also for Ubuntu.

We already support it for Debian, in case anyone missed this: http://groups.drupal.org/node/208423#comment-687728

excellent

Posted by socialtalker on March 14, 2012 at 9:11pm

thats good news to know. i am still relatively noob-ed to all of this. i didnt think you could just upgrade to a new version. thanks

I can see the reason for

Posted by geofftech on March 13, 2012 at 12:16pm

I can see the reason for having Barracuda and Octopus separate - but this is a little redundant in my case where I will only have one Octopus instance.

So Barracuda just sits there and looks pretty. When I need to do a "apt-get update", I run "bash BARRACUDA.sh" instead to make sure all the funny bits work together. I did explode my system once by taking shortcuts. I look at Barracuda as being the chasis and frame work that manages the server itself.

I have one single Octopus install. I map the backup folder to s3fs. On my EC2 servers, I have a EBS for MySQL and an EBS for /data/disk/o1/static. I do not use any of the Octopus platforms and have my own.

I was thinking at one stage of having an EBS per platform... Also, I would like to make use of the Emipheral(sp?) drive on the EC2....

What I would like to do is set up the BOA system with the ability to scale webheads and have separate Database servers...now that would be interesting. If that could be done, and the work measured, I can see multiple people using Octopus satelites each for a nice bustable infrastructure to share....