Thanks for the info. I'm glad that all of the data will be recovered. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 8:09 AM Manuel Arostegui <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 4:38 AM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Forwarding news of data loss. :( Hopefully it will all be recoverable. > > > > > > Hello, > > We believe no data has been lost - the data inserted during the incident is > still at our codfw DC (the active DC at the time), as there were no issues > on that process. > > At first and to quickly mitigate the impact of this incident we re-filled > all the rows that were inserted using the binlogs from codfw for the most > important tables, which might have left inconsistencies but not empty rows. > At the same time, and in parallel, we are recloning eqiad DC hosts from > codfw hosts (which have all the data, as there were no issues there) so all > the data will be back in eqiad without inconsistencies as soon as we finish > the recloning. > > Cheers > Manuel > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 2:46 PM > > Subject: [Wikidata] Data loss during the data centre switchover > > To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. < > > [email protected]> > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > During the data centre switchover routine > > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter> on October 10th, > > some unexpected problems occurred over the past days: > > > > - For a few hours, a small part of the data was not accessible. Some > > items and lexemes seemed to have disappeared. > > - Some data may have been lost, including edits, preferences changed > as > > well as user accounts created during a period or about 50 minutes > (from > > 2018-09-13 09:08:17 UTC to 2018-09-13 09:58:26). > > > > Part of the data has already been restored (edits and revisions. The rest > > (user accounts, preferences) will be restored at the beginning of next > > week. > > > > If you edited Wikidata on September 13th, please check your > contributions. > > If you encounter any problem in the next days, like items not reappearing > > or something missing, let me know. > > > > If you're interested in technical details, you can have a look at the > > Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206743>. Thanks > for > > your understanding, > > -- > > Léa Lacroix > > Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > > 10963 Berlin > > www.wikimedia.de > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter > > der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
