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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
Title: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 24, 2010, 09:09:30 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Classic on April 24, 2010, 09:10:34 PM
Do it every Sunday. Sundays are our slowest days.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on April 24, 2010, 11:07:56 PM
First option, at some time when most Boyagers are at school and/or work. y/n
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 25, 2010, 08:16:32 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Nyerp on April 25, 2010, 08:17:29 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: bluaki on April 25, 2010, 09:41:22 AM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 25, 2010, 09:54:32 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: FAMY2 on April 25, 2010, 10:10:49 AM
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;
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 25, 2010, 10:40:50 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Wrench on April 25, 2010, 10:55:51 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: strongbad on April 25, 2010, 12:08:21 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool 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!
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: snorkel 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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 25, 2010, 02:03:53 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cookie on April 25, 2010, 02:29:56 PM
I'm ok with once a month.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Nyerp on April 25, 2010, 04:36:29 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Travis on April 25, 2010, 04:41:05 PM
LOL nyerp that was so funny
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Thyme on April 25, 2010, 04:41:50 PM
Quote from: Travis on April 25, 2010, 04:41:05 PM
LOL nyerp that was so funny


i laughed as well 5thgrade;
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 25, 2010, 04:57:14 PM
Quote from: Nyerp on April 25, 2010, 04:36:29 PM
shut the fuck up


lol
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 25, 2010, 05:54:03 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 25, 2010, 06:22:55 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: spaceman on April 25, 2010, 06:57:43 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: LCK on April 25, 2010, 07:12:39 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: hotlikesauce. on April 25, 2010, 07:19:36 PM
Just do it once a month or every two weeks every midnight on sunday or something.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: l a c e y on April 25, 2010, 08:07:30 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 25, 2010, 08:18:47 PM
I bet you're really good at sucking things up, lacey.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: l a c e y on April 25, 2010, 08:21:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 25, 2010, 08:29:23 PM
Well fuck. You're supposed to fight back you stupid bitch.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: l a c e y on April 25, 2010, 08:36:23 PM
why would i fight back when you speak the truth.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: rdl on April 25, 2010, 08:37:05 PM
sucking everyone's dick is nothing to be proud of
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on April 25, 2010, 08:52:16 PM
CANADIAN FIGHT
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Classic 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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: snorkel on April 25, 2010, 09:11:02 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: l a c e y on April 25, 2010, 09:13:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 25, 2010, 11:10:53 PM
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!
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran 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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 26, 2010, 08:04:11 AM
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.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 26, 2010, 07:45:37 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: l a c e y on April 26, 2010, 07:53:48 PM
You'd never find me anyways. Plus I'd never try to find you because I don't care.
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: rdl on April 26, 2010, 08:42:40 PM
i thought in canada people fight with machetes
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 27, 2010, 12:53:39 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Cool on April 27, 2010, 10:35:07 AM
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;
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: rdl on April 27, 2010, 04:31:58 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 27, 2010, 04:34:29 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: rdl on April 27, 2010, 04:36:22 PM
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;
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Samus Aran on April 27, 2010, 09:08:12 PM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Wrench on April 28, 2010, 11:40:51 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Thyme on April 28, 2010, 11:42:17 AM
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;
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Wrench on April 28, 2010, 11:43:28 AM
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
Title: Re: Backup Poll
Post by: Daddy on May 02, 2010, 10:22:09 PM
Okay, I'm going to back it up around 00:01 and 2:00 every monday.

2010-05-03's backup complete.