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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2022, @07:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2022, @07:51AM (#1279460)

    the thing I have consistently hated throughout the decades has been "the treadmill" that constant need to update your own stuff to remain compatible with "their stuff".

    Yeah, it seems as insane as building and maintaining factories on foundations that change every 18 months. But many even seem enthusiastic about it.

    In many/most cases compatibility is broken often enough that it isn't a simple move.

    I guess it's better job security but still crazy, disgusting and wasteful to me.

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