[tor-project] Sandstorm, NextCloud (was: February 2019 in sysadmin land)

[Linus Nordberg]

Hi Tom,

Our Sandstorm instance is not being maintained. Whether the Sandstorm
software is being maintained or not I'll leave for someone who knows
better.

The fact that our instance doesn't have a service owner is in itself a
reason to shut it down.

Arguments voiced for migrating to NextCloud include: software momentum;
shared calendar and tasks, collaborative editing of documents and
spreadsheets; kabana boards; several sysadmins already running NC
instances for other things. I suppose that the last argument is not a
factual merit of the system, but it is an explanation of how we ended up
with a task of finding out if NC is good enough for Tor.


Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:06:26 +0000:

> I was wondering about Sandstorm. Is it unmaintained? Is it desirable
> to migrate off it?
>
> (I will miss it, I quite like it...)
>
> -tom
>
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 11:50, Linus Nordberg <linus at torproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tor,
>>
>> Here's what February looked like to the sysadmin team.
>>
>> # What's been done
>>
>> - We have hired anarcat!
>>
>> - Experimenting with full disk encryption of VM's.
>>
>> - GitLab VM setup (re: #29402).
>>
>> - Migration of the CiviCRM systems to new VM's with a recent OS.
>>
>> - Experimenting with Prometheus for trend analysis (re: #29681).
>>
>> - The ordinary resolving of requests and bug reports, as can be
>>   followed better over at [tickets].
>>
>> [tickets] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/report/44>
>> # Upcoming new things
>>
>> - Getting anarcat up and running.
>>
>> - Trying out NextCloud for some set of Tor people, as a replacement
>>   for SVN, Sandstorm and possibly more (re: #29415).
>>
>>
>> # Fact of the month
>>
>> Our backup server holds system backups for 77 hosts. Currently there
>> are 338 full backups and 11886 incremental backups consuming 13 TB.
>> Apart from system backups, we have PostgreSQL backups for five hosts,
>> eating another 280 GB.
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