Re: server migration

2017-06-19 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Monday, 19 June 2017 8:30:46 AM AEST Arjen Lentz via luv-main wrote: > >time when we have 2 separate instances of Drupal and I don't want > >anyone to > >make changes to the old one that get lost. > > Re the backend MySQL storage, you make the new MySQL instance a slave of the > old one. That

Re: server migration

2017-06-18 Thread Arjen Lentz via luv-main
>time when we have 2 separate instances of Drupal and I don't want >anyone to >make changes to the old one that get lost. Re the backend MySQL storage, you make the new MySQL instance a slave of the old one. That way nothing can get lost. We've find this many times with large systems. No

server migration

2017-06-18 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
New hardware has been purchased for the system that hosts the LUV VM. The old server is a i7-920, 8G of RAM, and 2*750G SATA disks. The "new" server is a i7-930, 48G of RAM, 2*250G SATA SSD, and 2*2TB SATA disks. I put new in quotes because it's not new hardware, it's hardware someone else

Re: more about server migration

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew McN via luv-main
On 12/01/16 15:11, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > When running at VPAC the watchdog table in the Drupal database took up 20G of > disk space and as it was in the ibdata1 file there was no good option for > freeing the space even after deleting most rows. As part of the migration to >

Re: server migration

2016-01-11 Thread Brian May via luv-main
Russell Coker via luv-main writes: > Unfortunately we have some DNS issues. I've got a simple TCP proxy in place > for the web server but that doesn't work so well for email as it breaks lots > of anti-spam checks. I will use a proxy for the mail server if we don't have

more about server migration

2016-01-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
As mentioned in a previous message (which many people on the list probably didn't get) I've just moved the LUV server to a VM in Germany courtesy of Paul Menzel who pays the rent on the physical hardware. We had a few problems along the way with DNS records not updating when I wanted them to

server migration

2016-01-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
As previously discussed VPAC no longer officially exists and out hosting there is going to disappear. I have migrated the LUV server to a virtual maching in Germany on the Hetzner network. This gives us plenty of storage, fast Internet access, IPv6, and it's free (courtesy of a German Linux