Postmortem Postmortem for August 16th

[Null]

1. Server starts acting gay at around 11am UTC+0.
2. Decide to try and upgrade the MySQL server to see if that would resolve the suspected error.
3. Upgrade goes awry. Hot copy is somehow damaged.
4. Clone and import living archive on second device I've been setting up.
5. Living archive hasn't been active since the 10th.
6. Last backup was generated at 12pm UTC+0 the day prior.

Literally the worst case scenario barring the backups not running at all: 23 hours of data loss.

Edit: looks like the upgrade actually fixed the original issue lol

 

[gaystoner]

Afghanistan is saved!

 

[No Life Prince]

All that autism, gone, forgotten, like tears in rain.

 

[Ashkechu]

I wish we could do a roll back on Chris' life

 

[ArmouredRobin]

I want to rollback to before the merge

 

[HumbleFarmer]

pretty gay, and not the good kind

 

[NigKid]

We have to restore 23 hours of autism guys - get on it!

 

[AmbiTron]

Hopefully nothing important was lost, but I'm sure it's mostly fine. Thanks for getting us back up quickly.

 

[RSLUG30]

guessing the forum is on a 24 hour backup?
if so that's some incredibly unfortunate timing for the server to act gay.

 

[Bill The Fucker]

2. Decide to try and upgrade the MySQL server

Found the problem

 

[Hackallier]

RIP pages upon pages of fall of Kabul documentation.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

But at least I'm not going fucking insane like I'd thought I was.

This could have been so much worse in so many ways, I'd imagine.

 

[hateful entity]

Too bad I can't forget all the shit I saw on this website in the past 24h.

 

[Bingeamint]

Ya did ya best Null and thats all that matters.

 

[Blue_Snow]

it's the glowies again....

 

[Divine right to rule]

My priceless shitposting yesterday was not saved and archived for future generations.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Welcome to kiwifarms, where the ratings are made up and the shitposts don't matter!

 

[REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]

Dangit Jersh! We had discovered the cure for cancer in the Rhys McKinnon thread yesterday and now it's lost forever

 

[ddw]

didn't the database die minutes before a 12-hour interval backup a couple years ago? lmao

 

[Overly Serious]

1. Server starts acting gay at around 11am UTC+0.

How I wish that *I* could put that in an incident report. Truly being your own boss is having the best boss.