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
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