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Drew Black
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Posted - Oct 26 2020 : 1:37PM
I'm swapping out one of our servers late tonight /early Thursday morning. This will result in some down time for the forum and www portion of the site. Maybe 45 mins to as much as 2 hours as I remove the old server from the rack and install the replacement.

Image uploads will be offline for much longer as I copy/move/resync data between the various servers. The image upload features will have "Down for maintenance" error messages during the transition. The whole process may take up to 5 or 6 hours.


Edited by - Drew Black on Nov 18 2020

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

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Posted - Oct 27 2020 : 1:46PM
I'm going to have to postpone this server swap a few days. Some other problems have arisen that I need to deal with before I can get to this.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 18 2020 : 10:09AM
So this is happening tonight.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 18 2020 : 11:28PM
I'm starting up the server move soon. Turning off image uploads in a few minutes.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 5:12AM
The new server is installed and online. Just moving data to it now before enabling image uploads again in a few hours. Still need to setup the file sync software too.
 
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 7:08AM
It's taking longer to copy the data than I anticipated. Still working on it.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 11:12AM
The copying is almost done. Maybe another hour. After the files are back in place I will have to configure the synchronization software which will take a bit of time.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 2:53PM
Getting close. Just trying to wrap up the sync software settings now.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 4:37PM
Forum image uploads appear to be functional again.
Drew Black
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Posted - Nov 19 2020 : 5:10PM
I'm sure there are a few loose ends with this server transition. I'll get to them tomorrow. Need to sleep for a while.



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