Pre-announcement
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
.... - raila)
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Subject: NDS Labs Workbench Update Notification
To all NDS Labs Workbench account-holders, cc: ndslabs Google group subscribers.
NDS Labs Workbench is scheduled to be off-line for a system upgrade Friday, February 10th through Tuesday, February 14th.
The NDS Labs Workbench service will be upgraded during this time to enhance stability and improve system performance,
A post-upgrade email will announce the resumption of service, and include any important notes about the upgrade.
Impacts:
- 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.
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