388168 - update tinderbox-stage regularly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Could the data on tinderbox-stage be kept up-to-date automatically with the live tinderbox server? 

For example an "rsync -av --delete" running from cron every day would be fine.. at minimum I'd like this for Firefox tree, although just doing everything would be fine too.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

A daily rsync could work I suppose.  I'd been trying to send the mail to both servers, but last time I enabled it, it killed the database server.  Bonsai (which tinderbox calls out to for building the "who check in" list) really pounds on the database with the number of tinderboxes we have now.

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A daily rsync could work I suppose.  I'd been trying to send the mail to both
> servers, but last time I enabled it, it killed the database server.  Bonsai
> (which tinderbox calls out to for building the "who check in" list) really
> pounds on the database with the number of tinderboxes we have now.

Ah makes sense.. email doesn't purge the old logs and data files, which is probably why I'm seeing gigantic data files on -stage :)

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is done.  It now rsyncs the data from production into stage nightly at 2am, then runs the checksetup script on it to re-convert the data to the current version just in case.  tinderbox-stage is now running cvs-tip as well.

And with that, I'm off for vacation, see you Monday.