This was done successfully.
wikitech read only start: 13:08:40
wikitech read only stop: 13:10:01
Total: 1 minute and 21 seconds
Thanks everyone who helped out!
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:05 PM Manuel Arostegui <marostegui(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello
This will happen in 55 minutes.
Thanks
Manuel.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:30 AM Manuel Arostegui <marostegui(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are going to switchover m5 (wikitech) primary database master on *Tuesday
> 3rd September at 13:00 UTC *https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229657
> This switchover will also affect some Cloud services that will be handled
> on a different announcement.
>
> The current master (db1073) is an old and out of warranty hosts with
> several disks on predictive failure, it needs to be decommissioned.
> We will be failing over db1073 to db1133, a newer and more powerful host.
>
> We expect this to take around 15 minutes (or just a few seconds if
> everything goes fine).
> *Impact: *
> *- Writes will be blocked during the switchover*
> *- Reads will remain unaffected.*
>
> Communication will happen on #wikimedia-operations IRC channel.
>
> Thanks
> Manuel.
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