EOS 2025 Workshop

You still have those QDB backups, right? (Practical example of disaster recovery of EOS deployment)

25 Mar 2025, 16:30

20m

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

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Speaker

Stefan Piperov (Purdue University (US))

Description

In December of 2024 the EOS cluster at Purdue University suffered a security incident which wiped out all metadata of our production deployment. In this brief talk we will give a step-by-step example of what it takes to recover from such setback, and discuss the best backup practices.

Presentation materials

Purdue EOS status and disaster-recovery report - presented at 9th EOS Workshop at CERN - March 2025.pdf

Recording

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