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To be sent on 2/6/2017 to all current Workbench users and the ndslabs Google group update.(I modded it up a bit to have some specific info
If we could just tar up /var/glfs/global and tar -xp on the new system, we can simplify this greatly and make it sound less concerning
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2-6: re-revised given in-office discussion
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Subject: NDS Labs Workbench Update Notification
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- Workbench accounts will be maintained across the upgrade, access to your account will continue without change.
- Accounts will effectively be returned to their initial, empty state:
- Services provisioned in your account and any data related to your provisioned services will be discarded. Files in the account home directory will be discarded.All existing services, files, and data in accounts will be discarded
Actions Required:
- Typical users of workbench:
No action is necessary. Your account will be accessible as usual but will be in a clean state with no data or services.Users wishing to archive/transfer data and/or files to another system:
You must save your data and files before the upgrade window above, after the upgrade your account will be in a clean state and data will not be retrievable.You may use the workbench file-manager and/ or linux archiving tools from the command-line to archive your home files and transfer them to your storage.Service-related data (managed by services such as databases) can be exported through the normal export/backup mechanisms in each particular tool.
Service data can be exported to your home directory, then included in a single archive of your home directory along with the export/backup files included.
Contact ndslabs-support@nationaladataservice.org for questions
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