hey folks,

would love to get an update on this as well. it's a little terrifying
to hear about rogue dev scalr processes killing production farms. are
there safeguards in place now to prevent this kind of thing happening?

hoping for a speedy response, thanks!

E.

On Jul 6, 11:39 am, rainier2 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, just looking for a little closure here.
>
> Was this a newly deployed production poller, or what it the dev poller
> that broke out of the dev sandbox?
>
> Has Scalr.net taken any actions to prevent a similar problem in the
> future?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On May 7, 12:08 pm, Cole <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Woa, this is kind of a deal breaker here!  Did this really happen?
> > Rightscale's seeming quite cost-effective now if this is the case!
>
> > On May 7, 10:30 am, Niv <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > and i have to add that the cause of the major data loss is your no-
> > > good way of doing the snapshots. once a snapshot creation starts, the
> > > older snapshot is immediately corrupt.
> > > your human error caused my instances to crash mid-snapshot creation
> > > and when restarted, the servers failed to download the snapshot and
> > > kept terminating.
> > > this bug was submitted more than six months ago and you've done
> > > absolutely nothing to fix it.
>
> > > On May 7, 5:22 pm, Niv <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > ruined my day & upcoming weekend + major data loss + ~20 extra
> > > > instances running for several hours doing nothing. yay.
>
> > > > On May 7, 5:11 pm, Alex Kovalyov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Martin, it was a user error on Scalr.net side.Devversion ofpoller
> > > > > has gone  nuts and selectively terminated instances on few farms
> > > > > before it was killed.
>
> > > > > On 7 май, 11:10, Martin Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > So my farm decided to crash this morning, all backups and database
> > > > > > bundles worked fine and another set of instances are in its place.
> > > > > > Hurrah!
>
> > > > > > What concerns me is why all four instances decided to crash within 3
> > > > > > minutes of each other. They're not connected by anything other than
> > > > > > connections to databases and memcache servers etc, but they all went
> > > > > > at once.
>
> > > > > > Instance 'i-46f94bxx' found in database but not found on EC2. 
> > > > > > Crashed.
> > > > > > Instance 'i-9a9014xx' found in database but not found on EC2. 
> > > > > > Crashed.
> > > > > > Instance 'i-29009axx' found in database but not found on EC2. 
> > > > > > Crashed.
> > > > > > Instance 'i-27a2ccxx' found in database but not found on EC2. 
> > > > > > Crashed.
>
> > > > > > Is there anywhere I can find more info on this other than my Event
> > > > > > log?
>
> > > > > > M.
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