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Required changes to Eldor are linked to moving off of CCMR's AFS. Hence the move from AFS will be being explained here, as a sub-project to the Eldor move project.
Steps and draft timeline
Ensure CIFS (replacement to AFS) is working for
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Liang. Includes testing permissions, including writes.
Draft start date: Week of May 27.24
Duration: About a weektwo days.
Make sure everyone has alternative ways to access AFS.
Turn off Eldor
Tentative date: June 3May 29.
Turn on Eldor, connected to CIFS
Tentative date: About a week after Eldor is turned off.
Turn off AFS
Tentative date: Soon after Eldor is functional.
Move all AFS data to CIFS
Tentative date: Same date AFS is turned off.
Duration: If just sync'ing data, maybe about a day.
Ensure Eldor is working for Liang. Includes testing ssh, software.
Draft start date: June 6.
Duration: About two days.
Move Liang's data from AFS to CIFS. Ensure CIFS is working for Liang.
Draft start date: June 10.
Duration: About two days.
Move other users' data from AFS to CIFS one by one.
Draft start date: Week of June 10. As CIFS added for user and data moved to CIFS, turn off AFS for that user.
Duration: About one-two weeks. Do quickly to reduce overlap of some folks on AFS and some folks on CIFS.
Turn off AFS (waiting this late allows us to roll-back, if Eldor must be reverted)
Tentative date: Do soon after all accounts have been successfully moved to CIFS and have thus been turned off from AFSIf having to copy all data over, may take a day or two.
Status
Must identify all current users of Eldor
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