We're currently in the restore phase of operations - restoring around 30 Gb of mail from the dump image earlier this morning. No glitches so far at all.

Details:

• 4:30 - 5:00: set downtime in Nagios so it wouldn't complain about KE/RT being down.
• 5:00: began level 0 dump of /home (/dev/aacd1s1e) to PAX:/home/r0p1/ke-home-dump.20030221 over private net.
• 5:00 - 7:00: compiled MIMEDefang 2.30 on my workstation and transferred it to /tmp on KE, monitored dump process, had breakfast, etc...
• 7:10: dump finished
• 7:20 - 8:00: arrive, reboot DBA (crashed, again)
  install Sendmail 8.12.6:
  • use package that I created on my workstation earlier
  • modify /etc/passwd and /etc/group to change smtp user and group to smmsp
  • modify /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/mimedefang.conf so that it runs as user smmsp instead of smtp
  • replace /etc/mail/Makefile with one taken from FreeBSD 4.6.2 and modified to reflect proper location of Sendmail cf M4 directory (/usr/local/share)
  • add lines to /etc/rc.conf for the new 8.12.x split queue structure:

    sendmail_enable="YES"
    sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m"
    sendmail_submit_enable="YES"
    sendmail_submit_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost"
    sendmail_outbound_enable="YES"
    sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m"
    sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"
    sendmail_msp_queue_flags="-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q1m"
    

  
  install MIMEDefang 2.30:
  • extract source in /tmp
  • "make install"
  
  Swap 18 Gb data disks for 72 Gb data disks, configure as RAID 5 container via Dell PERC BIOS, and then use /stand/sysinstall to label and newfs the disks
• 8:00 - current: restoring dump image from PAX

We have three 18 Gb disks for Dell PowerEdge servers going begging. Maybe they'll find a home in MIR. I won't do anything with them until I know that the new disks are happy, though.