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October 30, 2007

30. Oktober 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Backup
    • New problem -- NW has tape stuck in LTO drive (BOO!) -- Ugh -- NW thought it was till backing up to the tape from a savegroup that finished last night.
    • Replaced bad disk in SATABeast
  • LDAP
    • Update broke -- non-ascii characters in a name
    • Update broke notifications disabled.... re-enabled
    • Privacy flags set
    • OpenLDAP 2.3.39 build/test -- syncrepl issue

October 23, 2007

23. Oktober 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Backup
    • Work on cloning script
    • Schedule SecurShred for hard disks/tapes
  • LDAP: delta-syncrepl investigation

October 22, 2007

22. Oktober 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Backup
    • Tape Wrangling
    • AFTD filled up... emergency cleaning

October 12, 2007

12. Oktober 2007 -- Freitag

Admin

  • WebCT: Reboot guest system to fix clock issue
  • Accounts: re-lock account that was opened up to allow email retrieval
  • LDAP: one Banner non-authoritative manually processed
  • Accounts: move scripts to new server

October 10, 2007

10. Oktober 2007 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP: three "non-authoritative" errors to deal with manually
  • LDAP: slurpd done away with
  • Accounts: one account reactivated
  • LDAP: server acting funny... scheduled reboot for later tonight
  • Backup: clones???
  • LDAP: emeriti faculty issue -- not showing up correctly -- Aha... Banner thinks the person is still active!

October 9, 2007

9. Oktober 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Backup: EMC 20292396 -- respond to requests
  • LDAP: work on CatCard feed preliminary info
  • LDAP: remove another slurpd feed
  • Backup: tape wrangling
  • Measurements: update smtp measurements

October 8, 2007

8. Oktober 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Backup: TLS drive7 three flashing leds problem -- wound up rebooting storage node to clear all residual problems
  • Backup: EMC 20292396: provide the ulimit -a and truss output requested to show that the memory issue is not real in this recover 7.3.3 on aix problem
  • Backup: Work on cloning script
  • Backup: Start manual cloning of one save group that failed to clone over the weekend

On Call

  • All Quiet on the pager front

October 7, 2007

7. Oktober 2007 -- Sunntag

On Call

  • In-MailGW critical
  • /rack5d space

October 6, 2007

6. Oktober 2007 -- Samstag

On Call

  • Temporary HDISK error
  • In-MailGW critical -- three times

October 5, 2007

5. Oktober 2007 -- Freitag

Admin

  • WebCT: monitor system from 3:40 to 5:30 to see if yesterday's changes fixed the problem
  • LDAP:
    • JOIN failures fixed
    • Feed changes requested from SOR owners
  • Backup:
    • DataDomain 31715: reboot 460 to ensure it is correctly configured
    • EMC 20242686: download replacement nsrmmd binary
    • Meeting with COMIS about backups for them

October 4, 2007

4. Oktober 2007 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • LDAP:
    • Meeting with Catcard office about feed change request
    • Privacy flags set
    • JOIN failures repaired
  • Backup:
    • schedule reboot of dd460c with Data Domain
    • Telecon about VTLs and possible path to get to them
    • Spec new disk storage requirement
  • Accounts: "finish" work on porting to new system

October 2, 2007

2. Oktober 2007 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Accounts: work on moving scripts
  • Backup: replace broken storage node
  • Backup: brief meeting about disk storage vs VTL

October 1, 2007

1. Oktober 2007 -- Montag

Admin

  • Accounts: locked up the accounts that are scheduled for removal
  • LDAP: manually fix the join problems from the weekend
  • WebCT: power off and unplug the old SUN server! ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!
  • Backup: semi-automatic cleaning of tape drive worked!
  • Backup: one client is causing long delays in one save group. Killed the group so it can run again tonight and the rest of the clients will successfully backup.