ProjectInfrastructure

Mapping of assets

DNS

racktables.org domain is currently registered through GoDaddy, which also provides 2 free nameservers.

racktables.org mail

"racktables.org mail is handled by 10 mx.yandex.ru." Yandex Mail is a free email service, which allows for an own DNS domain. There is a single "devteam" mailbox configured in the domain, which is setup to forward all messages to every development team member.

racktables-users mail

FreeLists is a great free service without accompanying advertisements. The only drawback about it is that it is non-profit and can go down some day, so make sure to have the list of users on the backup list.

Demo host

Arnaud Launay is the administrator of a server, which currently runs RackTables demo. To get SSH access there, be a team member and find someone who already has access.

Statistics

SF download stats work for the downloads. Google analytics works for the content of racktables.org and demo.racktables.org.

Everything else

SourceForge. SVN, Mantis, Wiki, racktables.org HTTP vhost, downloads and shell service. Backup of data hosted on SF needs to be pulled manually.

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Backup procedure

racktables-users

Send an empty email with subject "who racktables-users" to ecartis@freelists.org and you will get a list of all subscribers. Save it to the backup directory as "racktables-users.txt".

SourceForge data

1. Project page, "Project admin", "Features", "XML export": save the file into backup directory as "racktables_export.xml".
2. Project page, "Project admin", "Features", "Hosted apps": save 4 files (mantisbt, mediawiki)*(Database,Files) into backup directory.
3. Backup stuff accessible from SF SSH only:

ssh -t YOUR_SF_USERNAME,racktables@shell.sourceforge.net create
adminrepo --checkout svn
svnadmin dump /svnroot/racktables | gzip > racktables-svn-dump.bin.gz
adminrepo --discard svn
tar czf racktables.org.tar.gz /home/project-web/racktables/htdocs/

sf-help | fgrep 'ssh -p'
# Note the hostname and the port and copy the files from SF shell to your directory:
scp -P 24006 YOUR_SF_USERNAME@shell4.sourceforge.net:~/racktables-svn-dump.bin.gz .
scp -P 24006 YOUR_SF_USERNAME@shell4.sourceforge.net:~/racktables.org.tar.gz .

# in SF shell again
rm racktables-svn-dump.bin.gz racktables.org.tar.gz
shutdown

Now the backup directory must have these files:

• racktables-svn-dump.bin.gz
• racktables-users.txt
• racktables.org.tar.gz
• racktables_export.xml
• racktables_mantisbt_files.tar.bz2
• racktables_mantisbt_mysqldump.sql.bz2
• racktables_mediawiki_files.tar.bz2
• racktables_mediawiki_mysqldump.sql.bz2

Wrap this stuff into an arhive with a meaningful name and save it to a safe place:

tar cf RackTables-project-backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar ./racktables*