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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Forum Maintenance _ Backups and Downtime

Posted by: helvick Aug 17 2012, 09:58 PM

I'm making some manual backups of the server as the first stage of transferring the board to our new server. There will be a lot of traffic leaving the server at some stage over the next few hours as I test moving a full copy across.

I've carried out some partial tests, no apparent impact, but I'm not 100% certain that there will be no impact until I kick it off. If I see any impact I'll hit the cancel button, but if anyone else notices slowdowns or timeouts \ errors over the next few hours please leave a reply here.


Posted by: helvick Aug 18 2012, 02:23 AM

This has now completed. There don't appear to have been any side effects that affected users, let me know if anyone noticed anything between +-00:00 GMT and 003:00 GMT.

Posted by: helvick Aug 24 2012, 08:00 AM

I'll be carrying out some database maintenance over the weekend - there may be intermittent periods where the board will be unavailable during the following time slots:

00:00-01:00 GMT Saturday 25 August ( 16:00 - 17:00 PST Friday 24 August )
00:00-01:00 GMT Sunday 26 August ( 16:00 - 17:00 PST Saturday 25 August )
00:00-01:00 GMT Monday 27 August ( 16:00 - 17:00 PST Sunday 26 August )

Outages will not last longer than 5 minutes at a time.

JoeM

Posted by: nprev Aug 24 2012, 08:04 AM

Joe, just to clarify: PST or PDT (which is what we're on now)?

Posted by: helvick Aug 24 2012, 08:24 AM

Good catch, all times above were not referring to daylight saving time zones.

For for the relevant local Daylight Saving Time zones the start times will be:

US
-17:00 PDT
-20:00 EDT

European
-01:00 BST
-02:00 CEST

Australia
-10:00 EST ( Never knew Aus. Timezones could be confused with US ones, learn something new every day)


Posted by: helvick Aug 24 2012, 11:02 PM

Just a reminder we may have spots of downtime starting in 60 minutes. The board will be unavailable for brief periods but I will ensure that none last longer than 5 minutes, and they should be significantly less.


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