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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, gentoo-core@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] dipper.gentoo.org outage post-mortem
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:24:30
Message-Id: 4da3e40e-6dbc-a57c-e204-66ea11b49d96@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] dipper.gentoo.org outage post-mortem by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 05/19/2016 08:44 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > Summary
3 > -------
4 > - dipper.gentoo.org suffered a major motherboard failure on Friday, May 13th.
5 > - The outage started around 2016/05/13 08h56 UTC, and was mostly resolved
6 > at 2016/05/14 20h53 UTC, approximately 36 hours in duration.
7 > - During this time, no rsync updates were issued, nor were distfiles,
8 > releases or snapshots updated.
9 > - New hardware purchasing is planned to recover capacity & mitigate
10 > hardware old-age.
11
12 ...
13
14 > Future actions to improve outcome:
15 > - Move rsync & snapshot generation to a dedicated redundant VM
16 > - Improve distfiles/release tarball process to have more redundancy,
17 > perhaps push-based.
18 > - Encourage cleanups of roverlay/tinderbox/devbox VMs to shrink size.
19 >
20
21 Thank you for the post mortem on the failure Robin. I've said it before
22 and I'll say it again; I think this outage was well handled!
23
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25 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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