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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by karaokeyoga on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:38PM (#18271264)
Is it just me or is that status message wonky? Failing over something to restore access?
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by radicality on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:48PM (#18271314)
"Failing over" in this context most likely means either migrating to some replica (say doing a dead master mysql promotion) or spinning up some backup storage system to serve master reads/writes.
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by cesarb on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:52PM (#18271336)
In this context, "failing over" means switching the active system to a replica. Which means their primary data storage system had some issue, and they were switching to a secondary data storage system, which hopefully contains the same data (replicated in real time, or nearly real time). Clearly that switch didn't quite work as expected, otherwise it would have taken just a couple of minutes before everything went back to normal...
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by rphillips on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:43PM (#18271288)
Sounds like an engineer knee deep in diagnosing the issue.
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by diegoperini on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:43PM (#18271790)
That person needs our support more than anyone else right now.
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by samontar on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:09AM (#18272743)
It’s just a variant referencing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failover
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by karaokeyoga on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:43PM (#18271287)
failing -> migrating
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Re:Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage sys... by pinneycolton on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:54PM (#18271836)
Well, they've got the "failing" part right. It's the "over" that's taking a while ;)
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