SEEK with Docker and unknown container "gallant_carson"

[Maria Sorokina]

Dear all,

I am writing here to ask if anyone was/is in a similar situation.

I am running SEEK with docker-compose on my local server. Two days ago, I noticed a container that I never launched, and that was not launched by anyone else having access to this machine.

This container is named "galland_cason" and it's entry point command is ""tar cvf /backup/seek-backup.tar /seek/filestore /seek/tmp/cache" " - this is why I am supposing that it can be SEEK-related and I'm writing here.

It was also quite difficult to kill it, even with a sudo. I didn't get any non-allowed connections to my servers meanwhile.

Have you encountered the same problem? Or do you have any clue of the direction in which I should lead my investigation? 

Kind regards,

Maria Sorokina

[Stuart Owen]

Hi,

This looks like a temporary container used to restore a seek backup. The "galland_cason" name will just be a random name generated by Docker for the container, if a name hasn't been explicitly supplied.

It seems to match the steps described to backup and restore from the SEEK Documentation at https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/docker/docker-compose.html (under Backup and Restore).

Have you, or another administrator, been experimenting with doing backups and restore? There is nothing within the SEEK docker-compose itself that would trigger these steps.

regards,

Stuart.

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[Maria Sorokina]

Thank you for your reply, Stuart!

It can indeed be a temporary container, but nobody played with the backups, and I am the only administrator (of the server AND of the SEEK instance). I didn't even get the time to update to the version 1.8 yet, so nobody touched to the system for the last two months.

Wired!