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Site Back Up After Unexpected Downtime

posted by NCommander on Saturday November 12 2022, @08:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the its-in-flames dept.

So, quick update here. The site was down for most of the night because the database cluster shot itself in the head. I had restarted a machine to install updates, and this caused the backend cluster to entire to entirely loose its mind. Unfortunately, I didn't have a manual dump of the database made, just a VM snapshot, since, well, I wasn't tinkering with it directly. I've mostly been trying to patch things to the point that I can sleep, and leaving things down like IRC and email which need to be seriously overhauled before they can go back up.

As far as damages go, it looks like we lost 10 or so days of messages, which uh, sucks for multiple reasons. We're currently on ##soylentnews on Libera.Chat while I pull bits of the site out of the flames, but I'm at the point that if I don't sleep, I will make things worse. Corruption in the production database is very much not what I wanted, and we're very much in limp mode for the moment. I'm going to let staff handle IRC and comments while I sleep, and then I'll post another update when I'm awake.

See you in a few hours

~ NCommander

 
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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday November 12 2022, @08:52PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday November 12 2022, @08:52PM (#1279403)

    Yeah, our system is single user but we have deployed thousands of systems around the world, different animal from a single server with thousands of users, but it's remarkable how many tools apply to both worlds.

    We got a minor burn from our systemd service file behavior the other day, it had Rabbit / Docker as a dependancy for another service we run, never expected killing that service would also kill docker... Now that we know it's not a problem, but it was about 20 hours of developer investigation to deal with that bit of nonsense.

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