Poll
Question:
What would you prefer
Option 1: More frequent backups, more frequent "downtime", less data loss in a crash
votes: 20
Option 2: Less frequent backups, less frequent "downtime", more loss of data in a crash
votes: 12
Basically, when backing up the forum can't be used because MySQL locks the database(it doesn't make sense to make changes while you're downloading it).
This means, the more frequently stuff is backed up, the more frequently the forum will go down for 20 minutes to an hour. However, the benefit of this is that less data is lost if the LOL DELETION were to happen again. So I ask boyagers what do you prefer:
-One monthly backup, the forum will only have one intentional downtime per month but if we lost the database up to a month of posts and registrations will be lost.
-Weekly backups, backups will be 4x as often, but so will downtime. The benefit of this though is that, at most, we'd lose a week of posts.
vote and it shall become policy at the start of the month.
Do it every Sunday. Sundays are our slowest days.
First option, at some time when most Boyagers are at school and/or work. y/n
anyone voting for the second option is a complete fucking retard
do it an noon on tuesdays
Quote from: Nyerp on April 25, 2010, 07:57:06 AM
anyone voting for the second option is a complete fucking retard
do it an noon on tuesdays
you do realize i have this thing called a job right
and i work during the week
Quote from: Khadafi on April 25, 2010, 08:16:32 AM
you do realize i have this thing called a job right
and i work during the week
fine then 6pm tuesdays
Quote from: Khadafi on April 25, 2010, 08:16:32 AM
you do realize i have this thing called a job right
and i work during the week
Is some sort of automated backup possible? Maybe even something that just saves a backup file to the server on a regular basis that you can download from FTP at any time.
Quote from: bluaki on April 25, 2010, 09:41:22 AM
Is some sort of automated backup possible? Maybe even something that just saves a backup file to the server on a regular basis that you can download from FTP at any time.
then if something goes wrong it will be hours before i could fix it
Quote from: Khadafi on April 25, 2010, 09:54:32 AM
then if something goes wrong it will be hours before i could fix it
Doesn't it take hours as it is? doodhuh;
it takes an hour tops
but if the automatic backup happens when i'm at work or school and mysql doesn't start itself or something then I won't be able to fix it until I get home.
so instead of 20 minutes to an hour of downtime it'd be the time taken for the backup and however long it takes me to get home and realize boyah isn't working
Makes sense to not use it then. But you know people will let you know it's down. lol
Quote from: FAMY2 on April 25, 2010, 10:42:37 AM
Makes sense to not use it then. But you know people will let you know it's down. lol
Of course. Everyone sends him an IM
Less frequent by far. The recent crash was the only one (that I know about atleast) that we've ever had, and one crash per 4 years isn't that bad. Keep it the way things are, and maybe we'll have another crash in 4 years.
You know I've never understood why you people lose your heads so much when this happens. Being at Outsider, I heard about the crash and was laughing along with everyone else, but why were you all so upset? Because you lost posts? They're just posts!
just make a cron job to scp the database to the other USA server at like 4am monday morning, it would only take a few seconds since both servers are in the same datacenter
Quote from: PinkAngelKitty on April 25, 2010, 12:11:19 PM
You know I've never understood why you people lose your heads so much when this happens. Being at Outsider, I heard about the crash and was laughing along with everyone else, but why were you all so upset? Because you lost posts? They're just posts!
actually, we weren't all upset
nyerp is pretty much the only one who threw a fit. some of us were laughing about it too, especially with nyerp bleeding out his vagina about it. i mean, yeah, we knew that it kinda sucks to be missing our PMs and some newer emotes, but the posts aren't what we cared about for the most part, if anything at all.
still, it'd be nice for a crash to not happen again
I'm ok with once a month.
Quote from: PinkAngelKitty on April 25, 2010, 12:11:19 PM
You know I've never understood why you people lose your heads so much when this happens. Being at Outsider, I heard about the crash and was laughing along with everyone else, but why were you all so upset? Because you lost posts? They're just posts!
Quote from: Lain on April 25, 2010, 02:03:53 PM
actually, we weren't all upset
nyerp is pretty much the only one who threw a fit. some of us were laughing about it too, especially with nyerp bleeding out his vagina about it. i mean, yeah, we knew that it kinda sucks to be missing our PMs and some newer emotes, but the posts aren't what we cared about for the most part, if anything at all.
still, it'd be nice for a crash to not happen again
shut the fuck up
LOL nyerp that was so funny
Quote from: Travis on April 25, 2010, 04:41:05 PM
LOL nyerp that was so funny
i laughed as well 5thgrade;
Quote from: FAMY2 on April 25, 2010, 10:42:37 AM
Makes sense to not use it then. But you know people will let you know it's down. lol
They can't let me know if I'm not at work since only Sam, Guff, PQQU, and Skylark have my new number akudood;
Quote from: wziard on April 25, 2010, 12:46:49 PM
just make a cron job to scp the database to the other USA server at like 4am monday morning, it would only take a few seconds since both servers are in the same datacenter
sometimes mysql doesn't start itself so if it goes down at 4am monday during a backup and no admins know this because i don't check boyah before work usually it's possible that boyah won't be back up until 5:30PM if I were to work a full day.
Quote from: Lain on April 25, 2010, 02:03:53 PM
actually, we weren't all upset
nyerp is pretty much the only one who threw a fit. some of us were laughing about it too, especially with nyerp bleeding out his vagina about it. i mean, yeah, we knew that it kinda sucks to be missing our PMs and some newer emotes, but the posts aren't what we cared about for the most part, if anything at all.
still, it'd be nice for a crash to not happen again
Oh yea actually that thread was posted on Outsider. I think it was soup. We all had a good laugh.
Honestly, even though that one crash was the only major one that's ever happened (in my being here anyways), it was a big loss. 4 months. Not that posts or any of that shit matters, it was actually pretty funny. But for a max of 4 hours a month, do weekly backups. Have it at some time when nobody is online and when it's least active, nobody will even notice. And if they do, it'd be like half an hour.
I'd rather have boyah gone 2-4 hours a month than have a months worth of data be gone. It's a simple decision.
Quote from: Nyerp on April 25, 2010, 07:57:06 AM
anyone voting for the second option is a complete fucking retard
do it an noon on tuesdays
oh god we can't lose the posts
Just do it once a month or every two weeks every midnight on sunday or something.
do it whenever you feel like it needs to be done. and who cares if people wanna use boyah at the time. they can suck it up.
I bet you're really good at sucking things up, lacey.
Quote from: PinkAngelKitty on April 25, 2010, 08:18:47 PM
I bet you're really good at sucking things up, lacey.
yeah big dicks.
Well fuck. You're supposed to fight back you stupid bitch.
why would i fight back when you speak the truth.
sucking everyone's dick is nothing to be proud of
CANADIAN FIGHT
She broke my heart, but PAK will always have my vote.
KICK HER ASS PAK. SHOW DAT BITCH WHOS BOSS
Quote from: Khadafi on April 25, 2010, 05:54:03 PM
They can't let me know if I'm not at work since only Sam, Guff, PQQU, and Skylark have my new number akudood;sometimes mysql doesn't start itself so if it goes down at 4am monday during a backup and no admins know this because i don't check boyah before work usually it's possible that boyah won't be back up until 5:30PM if I were to work a full day.
just add a command to restart mysqld then, that way if it's running it restarts it and if it's not it starts it
Quote from: ClassicTyler on April 25, 2010, 08:55:56 PM
She broke my heart, but PAK will always have my vote.
KICK HER ASS PAK. SHOW DAT BITCH WHOS BOSS
i'll just shoot her. jail looks fun.
Quote from: l a c e y on April 25, 2010, 09:13:04 PM
i'll just shoot her. jail looks fun.
Haha you wouldn't see me coming. You don't know what I look like.... but I've seen pictures of you!
See this is why you don't post pictures on the internet!
canadians don't know how to use guns anyway, lacey would be of no harm to you
unless of course getting your non-existent dick sucked was your weakness
Quote from: Lain on April 26, 2010, 12:09:53 AM
canadians don't know how to use guns anyway, lacey would be of no harm to you
unless of course getting your non-existent dick sucked was your weakness
hey I'm an excellent shot.
Quote from: PinkAngelKitty on April 26, 2010, 08:04:11 AM
hey I'm an excellent shot.
oh lord don't tell me you're canadian too
You'd never find me anyways. Plus I'd never try to find you because I don't care.
i thought in canada people fight with machetes
Quote from: FDR on April 26, 2010, 08:42:40 PM
i thought in canada people fight with machetes
why would they fight with machetes
i'm not getting how that could have been made into a joke in any way
Quote from: Lain on April 26, 2010, 07:45:37 PM
oh lord don't tell me you're canadian too
Yep!
Also I live in the same town as lacey. But not for much longer. akudood;
Quote from: Lain on April 27, 2010, 12:53:39 AM
why would they fight with machetes
i'm not getting how that could have been made into a joke in any way
it wasn't a joke. someone here got in a fight with guys with machetes and i was like "lol why do you guys have machetes shouldnt you be carrying guns or knives or something" and he was like "lol im canadian".
so
Quote from: FDR on April 27, 2010, 04:31:58 PM
it wasn't a joke. someone here got in a fight with guys with machetes and i was like "lol why do you guys have machetes shouldnt you be carrying guns or knives or something" and he was like "lol im canadian".
so
referencing something that happened in your area and that none of us would know is an obscure reference indeed
brownie points
Quote from: Lain on April 27, 2010, 04:34:29 PM
referencing something that happened in your area and that none of us would know is an obscure reference indeed
brownie points
when i said here i meant boyah. or it might've been outsider.
this is getting awkward akudood;
Quote from: FDR on April 27, 2010, 04:36:22 PM
when i said here i meant boyah. or it might've been outsider.
this is getting awkward akudood;
yeah well your face is awkward
Quote from: FDR on April 27, 2010, 04:36:22 PM
when i said here i meant boyah. or it might've been outsider.
this is getting awkward akudood;
I quite enjoy the thought of gravy all over my body
Quote from: Wrench on April 28, 2010, 11:40:51 AM
I quite enjoy the thought of gravy all over my body
I bet quite a few other people on here enjoy the thought of gravy all over your body as well. yes;
Quote from: Thyme on April 28, 2010, 11:42:17 AM
I bet quite a few other people on here enjoy the thought of gravy all over your body as well. yes;
My penis is also 3 inches
from the ground
Okay, I'm going to back it up around 00:01 and 2:00 every monday.
2010-05-03's backup complete.