[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [Tool Forge] Security reboots for ToolsDB on 2017-07-12

[Madhumitha Viswanathan]

Update: This is happening in a few minutes.


On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan <
mviswanathan at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Continuing our series of security related reboots of our servers, next up
> is ToolsDB (labsdb1005 and labsdb1004). ToolsDB refers to tool specific or
> tool user specific MariaDB databases that we host, and are usually named
> s[userid]__[name], or u[userid]__[name].
>
> The labsdb1004 reboot is set for 2017-07-11, Tuesday at 1400 UTC - this
> server is the slave db server, and should not affect tools users.
>
> The labsdb1005 (Master) reboot is set for 2017-07-12, Wednesday at 1400
> UTC - and will cause ToolsDB downtime for a few minutes, but may extend up
> to an hour.
>
> Although the risk of any data loss caused by the reboots is minimal,
> please note that while we keep 2 copies of the data in the replicated
> master-slave MySQL setup, we don't do offline backups of the data in
> ToolsDB. I've added a note about this in the Tools Database section on
> wikitech here - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/
> Database#ToolsDB_Backups_and_Replication.
>
> As always, feel free to reach out to us with questions/concerns on
> #wikimedia-cloud.
>
> --
> Madhumitha Viswanathan
> Operations Engineer, Cloud Services
>



-- 
--Madhu :)
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