This is happening in about an hour. We will be taking ToolsDB down for maintenance.
Brooke Storm Staff SRE Wikimedia Cloud Services [email protected] IRC: bstorm_ > On Dec 8, 2020, at 4:05 PM, Brooke Storm <[email protected]> wrote: > > In yet another effort to restore replication and preserve the redundancy of > the data in ToolsDB (user writable database in Toolforge), we need to take > the database (tools.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs) completely offline at 1700 UTC on > 16 Dec. Apps that depend on the ToolsDB service will fail during the outage > (which will take at least an hour, and we aren’t entirely sure exactly how > long—expect multiple hours). This will be much faster than the last outage > because we are doing a straight copy of the binary database files between the > servers. Details of this mess and efforts to restore the replication service > can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266587 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266587> > > If we succeed in producing a viable copy of the database on another system, > we will also perform an upgrade on the hypervisor it is on before closing the > maintenance period. That should be an additional hour or so. > > We appreciate your patience with this process. It is very important that we > establish a second copy of this database, especially in light of recent > crashes (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253738 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253738>). > > Brooke Storm > Staff SRE > Wikimedia Cloud Services > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > IRC: bstorm_ > > > > >
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