How long are the binlogs kept for on Wikimedia servers? Surely it would be possible to take a dump now, import it to s3, start replication, then import the same dump onto the new server, and let it catch up from a month of replag?
Of course, this wouldn't be possible if the binlogs are not kept for that long. 2009/1/5 Pietrodn <[email protected]>: > Il giorno 05/gen/09, alle ore 12:34, Daniel Kinzler ha scritto: > >> Pietrodn schrieb: >>> Il giorno 05/gen/09, alle ore 12:23, Daniel Kinzler ha scritto: >>> >>>> Mashiah Davidson schrieb: >>>>> Hello, River, >>>>> >>>>> could you please to clarify "about to receive" and "long time" let >>>>> say >>>>> selecting a proper time measure: days, weeks, months. >>>> It will be about a month until the new boxes are online. >>>> >>>> -- daniel >>> >>> Hmm... that's a long time. Can you restart the replication before >>> please? >> >> It's not a matter ofrestarting. The process is: take a slave server >> out of >> rotation and make a dump (I don't have access on the main cluster, >> so I can't do >> that), then copy the dump over, import it, and *then* start >> replication. This >> takes quite some time (a week, i'd guess), and is a lot of hassle. >> Also, during >> import, s3 is going to be completly unavailable for several days, >> instead of >> just having old data. >> >> Doing this twice is no fun. So it's not an easy choice. I leave it >> to river to >> make it :) >> >> -- daniel > > Oh, I understand. I didn't think it was such a long and difficult > process. > > Pietrodn > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > -- Regards, Simon Walker User:Stwalkerster on all public Wikimedia Foundation wikis Administrator on the English Wikipedia Developer of Helpmebot and the ACC tool Your donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
