Thanks for the updates. Being an IT person, there is nothing more annoying than constantly being asked "when will you have it done". It will be done when it's done.
On Sunday, April 1, 2012 3:14:50 AM UTC+10, Scott Alden wrote: > > Hey Y'all, I wanted to give an update as we're about to head back over > to the ISP and do some more work. > > Last night we rebuilt the RAID system on our main file server (due to > a failed hard drive) - even though we have a full backup on another > server, I wanted to have another regular backup before rebuilding the > RAID. This took a bit longer than expected because the way rsync > calculates checksums. However, this wasn't the problem that kept me > up till 6am. > > In addition to replacing a failed drive on the main file server, we > wanted to finally retire one of our oldest servers (Sackson). Sackson > runs a database called MongoDB (www.mongodb.org). It's been growing > over time, and we intended to migrate it to one of our newer machines. > The process of backing up and importing a mongo database takes a long > time due to the sheer size of the data and the indices that this > database uses. > > During the setup of mongo on a new server, I started noticing the OS > would "stall" several times when writing to disk. It turns out that a > combination of using a virtual server, with the particular hard drive > configuration on this machine doesn't seem to work properly - it takes > far too long to write the data to disk (this is a problem to solve for > a different time). Around 4am I decided to abandon the new server and > go back to a non-virtualized server. > > We're going back in today and reinstalling a different OS and moving > things around. > > I really apologize for the delay - nobody wants the site back up more than > me. > > -- > Aldie > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/vO5R8eowfsMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
