perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Kathy,

On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Kathy Benninger 
<>
 wrote:

> I will be upgrading several pS-PT nodes from NetInstall 3.2.2 to NetInstall 
> 3.3.  My plan, at least for now, is to preserve and restore the 
> configuration files.
> 
> The upgrade instructions posted at:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/pSPerformanceToolkit33UpgradeGuidev
> 
> are giving me problems at Step 4.  The instructions say:
> 
> 4. Run the script giving it the name of the gzipped tarball you would like 
> generated as the only parameter. In the command below, all backups will be 
> stored in the home directory in a file call ps-toolkit-3.2-backup.tgz:
> 
> ./ ps-toolkit-migrate-backup.sh  ~/ps-toolkit-3.2-backup.tgz
> 
> Comments/questions:
> 
> 1) Typo <space> in the above sample command line
> 
> 2) I needed to run with sudo to get user passwords.
> 
> 3) The script fails with:
> Backing-up administrative info...Unable to copy 
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/etc/administrative_info
> 
> Is the grep -v and conditional test in ps-toolkit-migrate-backup.sh correct?
> 
> #get administrative info
> printf "Backing-up administrative info..."
> grep -v "site_project=pS-NPToolkit-" 
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/etc/administrative_info > 
> $TEMP_BAK_DIR/opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/etc/administrative_info
> if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
>    echo "Unable to copy /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/etc/administrative_info"
>    exit 1
> fi
> printf "[SUCCESS]"
> echo ""

This should be correct. Does that file exist, and is there enough space to 
backup the configuration?

Cheers,
Aaron

> 
> Thanks!
> Kathy
> 
> --------------------------
> Kathy Benninger
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>