Moving back to production

It’s time.

FreshPorts has been running on the BETA server for quite some time. It is time to move back to production.

This will involve a pg_dump, an rsync, another pg_dump, another rsync, a load, a change to DNS, and a redirect in Apache.

We’ll see how it goes. The time is now 8:19 PM EST.

The pg_dump has started:

[dan@nyi:~/transfer] $ time pg_dump freshports.org | gzip >  freshports.sql.gz

The change to DNS is ready to go:

$ cvs di freshports.org.db
Index: freshports.org.db
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/repositories/websites/dns/freshports.org.db,v
retrieving revision 1.3.2.69
diff -r1.3.2.69 freshports.org.db
8c8
<                               2008042900      ; Serial
---
>                               2008081200      ; Serial
29,30c29,30
< freshports.org.               IN      A               64.147.113.42
< www                                   IN  A           64.147.113.42
---
> freshports.org.               IN      A               206.127.23.226
> www                                   IN  A           206.127.23.226
[dan@ngaio:~/dns-no-tsig] $

Now the dump is done:

[dan@nyi:~/transfer] $ time pg_dump freshports.org | gzip >  freshports.sql.gz
real    23m18.301s
user    5m39.145s
sys     0m14.889s

DOH! I was rsyncing to the wrong destination! Well, that was a wasted 15 minutes. Oh well, I have an extra backup now.

It is 8:53 PM.

First rsync done.

$  rsync --recursive -avz --stats --progress dtm@nyi:~/transfer ~/
Enter passphrase for key '/home/dtm/.ssh/id_dsa':
receiving file list ...
2 files to consider
transfer/
transfer/freshports.sql.gz
   539905773 100%  223.32kB/s    0:39:20 (xfer#1, to-check=0/2)

Number of files: 2
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 539905773 bytes
Total transferred file size: 539905773 bytes
Literal data: 539905773 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 92
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 48
Total bytes received: 540087181

sent 48 bytes  received 540087181 bytes  226594.18 bytes/sec
total size is 539905773  speedup is 1.00
$

Time is now 9:36 PM

Now, turn off processing of incoming emails on the BETA server:

$ sudo svc -d /var/service/freshports
$ sudo svstat /var/service/freshports
/var/service/freshports: down 9 seconds, normally up

Take down the website so nobody updates it. Actually, everything becomes a 503 return code.

Now another dump:

$ time pg_dump freshports.org | gzip >  freshports.sql.gz
user    5m33.612s
sys     0m15.173s

And then an rsync while we know the database is not being updated.

Dump done. rsync started. It is now 10:22 PM.

But we have a problem. I’ve not been able to subscribe the production server to the cvs-all mailing list.

Another issue. It seems the rsync of a gzip’d file doesn’t save us much.

Abandoned. There is no time to continue. I’ll try another time.

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