That annoyance is hardly limited to the IT world, sadly. On Mar 31, 1:22 pm, batcut <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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