[Sysadmin] [theforum] WEO Migration

[Dean Mah]

I hadn't expected to do a complete db reload.  I was thinking of
grabbing the one or two comments and/or users and manually inserting
them into the database.

But I guess it doesn't matter.

Dean


On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:28 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
>
> I didn't add a http redirect, no.  Some of the database changes (a few
> comments I guess) may have been lost.  Do you think that's really problem
> though, with the low traffic the site's been getting lately?
>
> If the DNS change took effect at 1am this morning (as it seems to have) I'd
> expect that there also may have been a few comments added in the last 16
> hours that would be lost if we did another database transfer now.
>
> Mostly though it's just that the ~1GB db takes about two hours to copy and
> reload so I'm not looking forward to doing it again :-)
>
> -dave
>
> Dean Mah wrote:
>>
>> Great job Dave!  I'll try to get some time to work on the css-d
>> migration.  It should be fairly simple as all of the official
>> evolt.org ones and javascript seem to have moved over without a hitch.
>>  The only thing to worry about is the increased traffic and setting up
>> some anti-spam measures.
>>
>> Is www.evolt.org on tempest re-directing to tron?  If not, we may need
>> to do some db sync'ing.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:47 AM, David Kaufman<david at gigawatt.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Awesome! Thanks, Martin!
>>>
>>> I had bumped the serial number in the zone file again, and restarted bind
>>> again -- I guess it just refused to work until after I went to sleep :-)
>>>
>>> WEO is officially live on the new box -- shaweet.
>>>
>>> -dave
>>>
>>> On 8/22/2010 3:28 AM, Martin Burns wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems OK from here now:
>>>>
>>>>> whois evolt.org
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Name Server:NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
>>>> Name Server:NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
>>>> Name Server:NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
>>>> Name Server:NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
>>>>
>>>>> ping evolt.org
>>>>
>>>> PING evolt.org (67.19.208.10): 56 data bytes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> for NS in ns1 ns2 ns3 ns4; do echo -n "$NS: "; \
>>>>> host evolt.org $NS.everydns.net; done
>>>>
>>>> Name: ns1.everydns.net
>>>> evolt.org has address 67.19.208.10
>>>> ...
>>>> Name: ns4.everydns.net
>>>> evolt.org has address 67.19.208.10
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>> On 21 Aug 2010, at 23:11, David Kaufman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did you have any trouble getting the EveryDNS nameservers to axfr the
>>>>> dns
>>>>> changes?
>>>>>
>>>>> I changed just the A record for @ (evolt.org), bumped the serial number
>>>>> and restarted bind.  ns1.evolt.org is now sending the correct replies:
>>>>>
>>>>>  host evolt.org ns1.evolt.org
>>>>>  >    evolt.org               A       67.19.208.10
>>>>>
>>>>> but Everydns does not:
>>>>>
>>>>>  for NS in ns1 ns2 ns3 ns4; do echo -n "$NS: "; \
>>>>>    host evolt.org $NS.everydns.net; done
>>>>>  >    ns1: evolt.org                  A       67.19.100.194
>>>>>  >    ns2: evolt.org                  A       67.19.100.194
>>>>>  >    ns3: evolt.org                  A       67.19.100.194
>>>>>  >    ns4: evolt.org                  A       67.19.100.194
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>>
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>>>>> http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
>>> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>>>
>>
>>
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>> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
>> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>