irrelephpant | Different question: How can many websites take their entire operation down while doing backups? What could be causing the need for that? For example, right now, "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute." at https://acceptableads.com/standard/ I don’t get this. Why can’t the backup be made while the site is being served? |
RelayChat | it can be |
rindolf | irrelephpant: snapshotting? I don’t know. |
irrelephpant | Surely PostgreSQL is not unique in that it can back up data while not affecting the normal operations at all? |
irrelephpant | Snapshotting? |
RelayChat | irrelephpant you could probably set up a manual copy/paste with any database. |
rindolf | irrelephpant: yes, freezing the normally dynamic state of a UGC site’s database |
mercenary | irrelephpant: ‘scheduled maintenance’ is not necessarily equal to ‘backup’ |
irrelephpant | RelayChat: "you could probably set up a manual copy/paste with any database." <-- ? |
irrelephpant | rindolf: "UGC"? |
irrelephpant | mercenary: What else could it refer to? |
RelayChat | copy the database.db file and paste it elsewhere. that's a backup too. |
mercenary | irrelephpant: OS/software upgrades. database layout changes that need the code to be in sync. server moves. and many other things |
rindolf | irrelephpant: user-generated-content, jeeze |
RelayChat | maybe they’re running windows server and it’s a patch tuesday |
irrelephpant | rindolf: Never heard that before. |
irrelephpant | mercenary: Hmm… I suppose. |
rindolf | irrelephpant: from weblog comments to youtube uploads |
RelayChat | https://acceptableads.com/standard/ |
RelayChat | it’s back up |
RelayChat | a new windows update was released a few hours ago so that may have been it |
RelayChat | irrelephpant |
irrelephpant | Windows update? I thought that site was about web ads? |
RelayChat | the server os could be windows |
RelayChat | March 14th = Patch Tuesday |
rindolf | speculation isn’t fruitful |
rindolf | and actions and outcomes are more important than motives |
pyzozord | rindolf: depends |
pyzozord | cannot set a general rule for that kind of thing |
rindolf | pyzozord: I didn’t mean it as gospel :] |
pyzozord | rindolf: right, sorry |
rindolf | pyzozord: no worries. \o/ |