Your Welcome! Looking forward to the lighting fast speed of ih8mud on Friday! 
Server work overnite: Feb 4-5
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per the work right now, it's been discovered that the data transfer is running about 300Kb/sec....
aka: pathetic....somewhere, there is a bottleneck in place...no wonder the speeds suck sometimes....
likely pulling much of the data from the backup, suspect it's a faster connection....at the 300kb rate, moving the forum images alone will take almost a full day
WOW that is atrocious.
Does traceroute offer any insight? I'd imagine throughput would improve with the forum offline, but still... that's gotta be a bad config somewhere. Your datacenter has a switch with massive packet collision or some cocked up duplex setting or something. 300Kbps is worse than s***ty DSL upstream, they should be paying you to deal with that.
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on a good note, bqbackup is pushing 4.5-5 mbps...that'll help...push the backup data across, then run an rsync with the 'live' setup for little changes, and run with it 
Damn. I've been spoiled with Internet2 here at UF. I was in a professor's office today transmitting some raw uncompressed research data to the PNW and our throughput was around 650-700Mbps... 
Still 4-5Mbps is much more like it. So is the plan to run from the rsync backup and go from there? What are we running from now? It already 'feels' faster. I'm not getting 500ms+ latency.
Still 4-5Mbps is much more like it. So is the plan to run from the rsync backup and go from there? What are we running from now? It already 'feels' faster. I'm not getting 500ms+ latency.
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plan: run from 'current' as needed....shut down forum o) and move database to new server...re-open with old web server pointing to new database server (so posting and life can continue)....continue to move backup data to new server...close again for one last rsync between old and new, then reopen with everything on new.
simple?
I'm on 2 hours of sleep and going to bed...if my phone doesn't ring overnight, it's going smoothly
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
o) and move database to new server...re-open with old web server pointing to new database server (so posting and life can continue)....continue to move backup data to new server...close again for one last rsync between old and new, then reopen with everything on new.simple?
I'm on 2 hours of sleep and going to bed...if my phone doesn't ring overnight, it's going smoothly
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
As admin for a mult-state bank here in the midwest, I can appreciate the need for backups. I know I sleep good at night knowing my "stuff" is backed up to the max. I agree with someone else here who posted about VMWare and the newer "Vsphere 4" product...great set of tools. Good luck Woody, we all owe you for what you have done and continue to do.
It's running on Reno speed.per the work right now, it's been discovered that the data transfer is running about 300Kb/sec....
aka: pathetic....somewhere, there is a bottleneck in place...no wonder the speeds suck sometimes....
likely pulling much of the data from the backup, suspect it's a faster connection....at the 300kb rate, moving the forum images alone will take almost a full day
I'm on 2 hours of sleep and going to bed...if my phone doesn't ring overnight, it's going smoothly
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I'm gonna call you in about 4 hrs...
;p
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minor issue overnite...discovered that the new box was misconfigured...the 500G backup drive was correct, but the 250G primary was not....and the two 73G SCSI drives were not (but they ended up 147G, which is acceptable)
4-1/2 hours in, and the transfer was still pulling files from the Attachments folder...my policy of allowing EVERYONE to have attachment powers means a lot of data All the other sites hosted on the server are moved and ready to switch tho...waiting for Softlayer to make the box correction and then migration will progress.
Thanks for everyone's patience with this process
4-1/2 hours in, and the transfer was still pulling files from the Attachments folder...my policy of allowing EVERYONE to have attachment powers means a lot of data
All the other sites hosted on the server are moved and ready to switch tho...waiting for Softlayer to make the box correction and then migration will progress.Thanks for everyone's patience with this process
Blazin'! It has been dogged for me for so long. This has been a great transformation! THANKS, Woody!
Woody informed me an hour ago that the change-over had not happened yet. But it is much faster. Is it possible that the Reno folks are trying to get moving faster to retain his business?
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we DID make a couple minor tweaks yesterday...believe that helped the speed.
Still makes the customer service unacceptable...the migration is still progressing as planned...you don't move one of the largest offroad forums in the world quickly
Still makes the customer service unacceptable...the migration is still progressing as planned...you don't move one of the largest offroad forums in the world quickly
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right now, old web server running on new server database....the site should NOT need to come down again for the rest of the work...last little bits will be rsync's of the data and a final 'switch' so everything is running on the new location...that will occur later today.
