Hey Aldie, I hope that you take all this angst and whining as proof positive that what you're doing really matters to a lot of people. That's gotta feel good!
(Okay, so it's not so much "angst and whining" as disconsolate muttering, but you know what I mean. ;) ) Dean. On Apr 1, 3:14 am, Scott Alden <[email protected]> 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 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.
