Server migration - progress tracking

[Alex Samorukov]

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We are migrating from the Peer1 VM to the FreeBSD host. This story is required to track progress as there are many things to do.

Trac migration

• ☑ Change DNS A/AAAA records
• ☑ Restore latest (29.11.19) backups
• ☑ Restore MySQL database
• ☑ Create new SSL keys
• ☑ Restore nginx configuration
• ☑ Restore trac data to the new server
• ☑ Restore SVN sync from the sf.net to trac (done, every 3m)
• ☑ Create system service to start trac on server restart, validate it
• ☑ Fix loading plugins in the trac/plugins dir
• ☑ Re-enable re-captcha plugin
• ☑ Check if new user registration is working properly
• ☑ Fix man pages and docbook HTML renderer
• ☑ Check if SMTP is working
• ☑ Re-enable TracTocMacro plugin

Related services

• ☑ Restore SVN mirroring to the GitHub (sync2git process)
• ☑ Restore builds.smartmontools.org website
• ☑ Re-Enable doxygen docs generation
• ☑ Create new user to store the backups, sync content to another locations and provide access to another members
• ☑ Switch to mailgun as external SMTP server

Long-term changes

• ☐ Think about moving trac to VM or docker containers to allow fast relocation if needed
• ☐ Check if documentation is up to date. Setup export of it to the backups.
• ☐ Create DR documentation and put it with a backups

[Alex Samorukov]

Related ticket: #1268

[Alex Samorukov]

Closing ticket. Long-term changes could be handled separately.