* Get rid of any services running on the host.
* Optional, shut down the machine, then wait a month
* Zero disks
-
+```
badblocks -v -s -p 5 -w -f DEVICE_GOES_HERE
-
+```
* Revoke puppet certificate
-
- * on handel: puppet node clean $HOST.debian.org
- * on handel: puppet node deactivate $HOST.debian.org
+ * on handel: `puppet node clean $HOST.debian.org`
+ * on handel: `puppet node deactivate $HOST.debian.org`
* reinit samhain on handel
-
* Remove from LDAP
* including references such as subgroup: foo@hostname or supplementarygid: foo@hostname
* rerun puppet on backuphost / the backup host
```
* Remove disks from the MSA
* run multipath -ll on the KVM host and find all disks on that multipath
-
```
echo -n "multipath device to remove: " &&
export LC_ALL=C &&
multipath -f $path &&
for device in $(echo $devices); do blockdev --flushbufs /dev/$device; echo 1 > "/sys/block/$device/device/delete"; done
```
-
* remove the paths in the MSA
Three months after decomissioning:
+
* Remove backups