The Flat Earth Society
The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: Shane on November 01, 2014, 06:32:22 AM
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I probably was the onlonly person to notice but don't let it happen again
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This is an outrage!
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I know what would have caused this, although I didn't realise at the time that the forum was affected. In short, our backup system (http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=1300) didn't work as smoothly as I'd initially envisioned. The backups have been done hourly rather than minutely for some time, as it turns out that repacking a git repository with commits made every minute for several weeks takes up a lot of memory.
Even with the backups running hourly, the repository gets pretty big after a while, and the server ran out of memory a few hours ago while running a backup job. I haven't exactly solved the problem as such, but I did archive the old backup repository and create a new fresh one, so it won't happen again for a few months (during which time we'll hopefully come up with a better backup strategy).
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K dude