And, of course, thanks very much to Sean who is working crazy hours to get this working. Sean - beverage of choice sir, anytime.
Not so much "working", just short bursts or work followed by a lot of waiting :-) Databases. Bah!
Note that eventlogging replication has already caught on the One Box, analytics-store.eqiad.wmnet; any tools that use the 'research' user and read-only queries could consider switching to analytics-store and give db1047 time to recover.