Thanks for the update, Daniel!
On 30 dec, 19:10, dakarp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 12:33 pm, Nick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Does knowing the technical details behind why the site is down offer
> > anything more than another line of text to read?
>
> Here it is, with some simplifications and, probably, mistakes:
>
> The database server crashed due to a memory module going bad.
>
> Aldie brought it back up (with one of the slots turned off) repaired
> the database where it was corrupted, and backed it up almost
> immediately.
>
> We started importing the database into our backup server, but that
> process takes almost a full day. The next day, the import was
> finished, and shortly thereafter, the main server was repaired by Dell
> as well.
>
> At this point, in theory, we could have started the site back up
> again, but it would then be vulnerable to the same sort of problem
> should the db server ever crash again. Aldie decided instead to take
> the time to (again) set up a second "slave" database that would mirror
> the master, and could serve as a backup in the event of another such
> problem with the master. There are several ways to do this, all of
> them slow. He picked the one that would involve a one-time slow
> conversion of the database tables to a new format, and would, in the
> future, allow us to set up the slave much more efficiently than we can
> currently.
>
> This slow process has taken even longer than expected, but is near the
> end. When it finishes, Aldie will set up the master and slave
> database, and, in theory, we should be protected from such a long
> outage in the future, or at least such a long outage due to database
> failure.
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