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schnoog
post Nov 2 2017, 09:37 PM
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Hi folks,

6 and a half years ago I was asked to become admin of the Splatterladder.
During the last 6 years we had a total downtime of 51 hours, caused by several defects like broken hard disks (in total 9 were destroyed yet), a broken power supply or a runaway update.
A lot of work was necessary to patch an outdated operating system to keep it in a working and safe state.
But now the time has come to upgrade the operating system to ensure safety and continuity without compiling everything from source.

The SL codebase was written a long time ago, and I'm not able to guess how long it will take to bring all services back to life.
I'll do my very best to minimize the interruption(s).


Greetz
Schnoog







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macbeth
post Nov 3 2017, 01:31 AM
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Good luch Schnoogy
we all know u do and will your best for us


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{WeB}*DoG*
post Nov 3 2017, 01:48 AM
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Superb News Schnoog.... we look forward to the improvements and we will try our best to help in any useful way we can!!


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Wolf Enstein
post Nov 3 2017, 01:50 AM
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QUOTE (macbeth @ Nov 3 2017, 02:31 AM) *
Good luch Schnoogy
we all know u do and will your best for us





Thanks for all your efforts, Schnoogmei$ter cheers.gif .


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$mart
post Nov 3 2017, 09:38 AM
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51h during 6years means a SLA of 99,9 % !!!

Impressive !!! cheers.gif


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schnoog
post Nov 3 2017, 12:53 PM
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Thank you all for the flowers :)

But I need to compliment our hoster. Beside the fact that round about 4k Euro flow to them during this time (approx. 1k through donations), the support was always the best.
Never had to wait to exchange any hardware for longer than 4 hours.

If you like some statistics:
SL has moved 3times during the last 6 years. (Hetzner -> Hetzner -> Server4You)
During those 6 years I was connected for 613 hours via SSH to the server, today the 2300th database backup was created (today: 28GB database backup).
Our backup-drive now has a capacity of 3TB which is filled up to 90%




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Wolf Enstein
post Nov 3 2017, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE (schnoog @ Nov 3 2017, 01:53 PM) *
.....today the 2300th database backup was created (today: 28GB database backup).
Our backup-drive now has a capacity of 3TB which is filled up to 90%



Good grief schockiert.gif .


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SL.Baldi
post Nov 3 2017, 05:59 PM
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ZITAT(Wolf Enstein @ Nov 3 2017, 05:47 PM) *
ZITAT(schnoog @ Nov 3 2017, 01:53 PM) *
.....today the 2300th database backup was created (today: 28GB database backup).
Our backup-drive now has a capacity of 3TB which is filled up to 90%



Good grief schockiert.gif .




cheers.gif cool grin.gif
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schnoog
post Nov 4 2017, 11:36 PM
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Hi folks,

.....several hours of frustration and crying
.....one complete rollback
.....another hour of pure fun
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..
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but now the main work is done.
The server SL is running on is up to date, the operating system upgraded (tracking out time 1 hour)
Now the real debugging begins:
The new php version misses some functions used at SL.
Since I need to find all calls of those functions, this will be a "longer-term" work.

So if you find any page responding with an Error 500, please drop a note here in this thread



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Wolf Enstein
post Nov 5 2017, 08:53 PM
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QUOTE (schnoog @ Nov 5 2017, 12:36 AM) *
.....several hours of frustration and crying.....but now the main work is done.




respect.gif cheers.gif


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sl.Proddi
post Dec 3 2017, 10:20 PM
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ZITAT(schnoog @ Nov 2 2017, 09:37 PM) *
The SL codebase was written a long time ago

Perfect code i have to add grin.gif

Looking forward Schnocki :)


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