On 4/16/21 4:21 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
I'm thinking of a reservation something like this:
scontrol create reservation starttime=... duration=12:00:00
ReservationName=migrate_physics nodes=ALL Accounts=-physics
For the record: The idea of creating a Slurm reservation for excluding
spec
I need to migrate several sets of user home directories from an old NFS
file server to a new NFS file server. Each group of users belong to
specific Slurm accounts organized in a hierarchical tree.
I want to make the migration while the cluster is in full production mode
for all the other acc
Hi Niels Carl,
On 16-04-2021 14:41, Niels Carl Hansen wrote:
For each account do
sacctmgr modify account name= set GrpJobs=0
After sync'ing, resume with
sacctmgr modify account name= set GrpJobs=-1
Yes, but this would block all jobs from immediately. If
this account had a week-
Had to do home directory migrations a couple of times without 'full'
downtimes. Similar process, only I don't think we ever bothered
disabling users in LDAP or blocking their jobs. Generally, we told them
we'd move their directory at time X and would they please log out
everywhere; at time X, w
Hi Ole,
On 16/04/2021 14:23, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> Question: Does anyone have experiences with this type of scenario? Any
> good ideas or suggestions for other methods for data migration?
We once did something like that.
Basically it did something like that:
- Process is kicked off per use
