Hi, people have been pestering me to write this up, so here goes: .) merkel has been upgraded to etch yesterday. That probably means that ftp postgres database syncing from ftp-master works again, or will shortly. nm and qa websites seem to more or less still work too, if you notice any oddities please contact the team responsible for that service. .) We once again have current chroots for most archs that released with etch, mipsel being the only exception due to hardware/stability issues (see RT#246 for details). http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi has a list of developer accessible porter machines. You should already know that to get build dependencies installed just mail debian-admin@l.d.o, create a ticket in RT, or hunt one of us down on IRC and offer an appropriate bribe. .) Backups. Not everybody seems to be aware of DSA's backup policy of debian.org machines. The short version is that home directories are never backuped. We and our sponsors do not have the resources for that. If you have anything there that you care about you should keep backups yourself. We do make backups of selected trees under /srv or /org. If there is stuff that you care about and that would be gone forever if that machine ate its filesystem or burst into flames then those files probably belong somewhere below /srv/$service.debian.org/. Also _you_ should check if that tree is being backuped. Go to the /etc/da-backup/ directory and look for your tree. If it's not there, file a ticket in RT. Cheers, Peter
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