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Replacing Two Legacy Systems with a Single Python Service
For years, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History relied on two separate systems to track changes on the preservation storage array: a bash script (`pres-audit.sh`) that logged file changes, and a multi-server ZFS snapshot pipeline (`pres_snap`) that involved TrueNAS cron jobs, a Redis queue, and a dedicated Ubuntu processing server. They worked, mostly, but the complexity was becoming a liability. When something broke, debugging meant jumping between three different machines and piecing together what happened.