ORBIT-USER: URGENT - image deleted?

[Mesut Ali Ergin]

Please try scp-ing again, should work. The parent folder of the *tmp* is 
the one claimed images should go.

Best regards,

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Mesut Ali Ergin
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Andrea G. Forte wrote:
> Mesut,
> 
> thank you for the explanation. I have to say though that the FAQs are 
> very confusing on this point.
> In the FAQs you can read: "ORBIT keeps a *persistent* store for your 
> images on the machine named repository2 in the /export/orbit/image/tmp 
> directory.".
> I strongly suggest that you update the FAQs to reflect what you have 
> just explained. In particular, make clear that the tmp directory is 
> *not* persistent as it currently says.
> 
> Also, I could not find a way to copy the new image from the tmp 
> directory to my home directory. When I try to do scp it says:
> "Couldn't open /dev/null: Permission 
> deniedandreaf at console:~/orbitHandler/new$"
> 
> Could  someone explain how to save the image in a different directory? 
> How to copy it to the persistent db?
> 
> -Andrea
> 
> http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~andreaf/ 
> <http://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Eandreaf/>
> 
> 
> 
> Mesut Ali Ergin wrote:
>> Hi Andrea and All:
>>
>> Looking at the logs, I see that on or around 3PM today, the 1.1 
>> Terrabyte disk on our repository went completely filled up by more 
>> than 600 images that took about 287 GB (in addition to the 110 GB 
>> claimed images in /export/orbit/images), and the recovery script with 
>> the cfengine kicked in to clean up the list of designated *temporary 
>> storage folders*. In case of disk space exhaustion, that process is 
>> programmed to reclaim space occupied by unclaimed images with 
>> unmodified names (nodeX-Y*.ndz owned by nobody:nogroup) that stayed 
>> unmodified for more than 5 months.
>>
>> It is appropriate to remind all users again that *tmp* storage place 
>> for your disk images is really *temporary* and it is provided for your 
>> convenience. Also, it is not backed up as your home directories. You 
>> have to change both the image file names and their owners to yourself 
>> before copying to /export/orbit/images (from tmp) to claim them. Also, 
>> copying them to your local computer is always a good idea. Since it is 
>> impossible to keep too many claimed images, given hundreds of users of 
>> ORBIT, please keep them at a minimum number, deleting unnecessary old 
>> ones as appropriate.
>>
>> I'm sorry for the loss of your image, and hope that you have a claimed 
>> image or a temporary image from the last five months that has the same 
>> content.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>