Migration Schedule for the move to San Diego

UPDATE Just in case anyone missed it

“In light of some problems today, we’re going to be postponing the migration 2 days. I’ll post a more concrete schedule later tonight, but we won’t be starting the ‘lock down webmin and start everything flipping over’ until Friday PM, shooting for a bit before 00:00. More details to follow and terribly sorry for the delay. We want to have things go as smoothly as possible, and in the midst of all the issues today, we thought it better to wait until the ‘quiet time’ that is typically Friday night and the weekend.”

So we’ll be doing initial rsyncs of all the servers tomorrow and Friday, and then we’re having a webmin free weekend, so that we can concentrate Saturday and Sunday and get things finalized in no configuration changes happening, and do some final rsyncing and flip the switch to our new home. And if you have anything that you don’t need, like those 5000 deleted messages that you never purged, now’s the time to do it. Spring cleaning in the middle of summer.
end update

Ok, so looking back at the last time we moved servers (a little further down in this forum) I think the best way to handle a schedule is to give y’all a flexible window, and update things as we perform the migrations.

Here’s our schedule, and depending on how smoothly/roughly things go (should be a breeze) we may move schedules up (yay) or back (hopefully not).

Wednesday: one.textdrive.com first, barclay.textdrive.com second
Thursday: bidwell.textdrive.com first, nelson.textdrive.com second
Friday: pendrell.textdrive.com first, davie.textdrive.com second
Saturday: gilford.textdrive.com first, beers.textdrive.com second
(get it? beers.textdr….. it’s a joke, laugh please…)

We’ll be commencing things roughly 14:00 GMT on each of these days, and will be disabling webmin/usermin for the period of time in which we’re moving the configurations, so as not to have to worry about missing a last minute change made by anyone. I’d expect that Wednesday will take most of the day as we get our migratin’ legs again, and the rest of the week should go quicker. Per server should take anywhere from 4-8 hours to completely finish off everything and get things rsync’d before we flip the DNS switch and give you third party DNS folks the go-ahead. Watch the forums (http://forum.textdrive.com) for updates during the days. We’ll open an announcements thread for each server as we work through the process.

As with previous migrations, we’ll be disabling Urchin log tracking for a bit while we work out the license migrations, and we’ll set the scheduler to pull in all the logfiles so that any days missed in transition will not be blank.

As always, please feel free to email migration@textdrive.com with any questions, concerns or comments you may have about this process.

·:· Posted 25 August 2005, 07:33 by Ryan Schwartz to Web servers  |  

  1. W00t! See, it pays to be on one! Either that or I get to be the guinea pig…

    — Kevan    23 August 2005, 13:32    #
  2. Is it Friday yet? davie (at least its port 80) is gone…

    — cabo    23 August 2005, 17:11    #
  3. Mmmmmmmm, Beers!

    — Adrian    23 August 2005, 22:51    #