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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, @09:03PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday November 12 2022, @09:03PM (#1279405)

    Just recently we updated Virtual Box to whatever installs in Ubuntu 22.04 with apt and they went and locked down (well, made less open) configuration of host only network addresses, now you have to create folder /etc/vbox and put a network.conf file in there to specify something other than their 192.168.56.1/20 default range...

    It's always something.

    For SN I would really try to avoid all the "cool" stuff that opens so many security holes like you describe. If you don't have fancy stuff, then you don't need to provide access for updating of the fancy stuff.

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