Reminder that this is starting in 1 hour. I will send another email when this is done.
Thanks for your patience. On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 6:57 PM Andrew Bogott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday we will be migrating most toolforge databases to a new server. > This will take place on Thursday at 17:00UTC. During this window ToolsDB will > be read-only and most tools that rely on writing to the database will fail. > > This migration should take about an hour but unexpected side-effects may > extend the downtime. > > -- details -- > > DB outage Thursday: As part of the ongoing effort to upgrade user-created > Toolforge databases, we will migrate ToolsDB to a new VM that will have a > more recent version of Debian and MariaDB and will use a more resilient > storage solution. > > The new VM is ready, and we plan to point all tools to use it on Apr, 6 2023 > at 17:00 UTC. > > This will involve about 1 hour of read-only time for the database. Any > existing database connection will be terminated, and if your tool does not > reconnect automatically you might have to restart it manually. > > An email will be sent shortly before starting the migration, and when it's > finished. > > Please also make sure your tool is connecting to the database using the > canonical hostname tools.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud and not any other hostname or > IP address. > > For more details, and to report any issue, you can read or leave a comment at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333471 > > For more context you can also check out the parent task > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301949 > _______________________________________________ > Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Francesco Negri (he/him) -- IRC: dhinus Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services team Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Cloud mailing list -- [email protected] List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
