[Fiware] About the incident in the forge last weekend

[Davide Dalle Carbonare]

Dear Miguel,
many thanks to you and all the people that worked on this.

Kind regards,
Davide


Miguel Carrillo <mcp at tid.es> ha scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> A bit more of info on the incident we experienced at the beginning  
> of the week.
>
> Two hard disks broke down on Saturday (5/Jan) at 2am and 8 am  
> respectively. We were fully prepared for a single one (we use  
> redundancy) but two at the same time is too much. To make things  
> worse, the last daily backups had failed and the last usable backup  
> we had dated back from Thursday night (2/Jan) at 23:58 and this is  
> the one we have restored. This means that if anyone used the forge  
> on Friday or Saturday, the changes have got lost.
>
> Any changes in any of these tools last Friday have possibly  
> disappeared. Going a bit into detail, this impacts:
>
>  *   All wikis (public, private, chapter wikis)
>  *   The SVN (I doubt that anyone used this on these dates)
>  *   Docman
>  *   The "Files" tool
>  *   Trackers
>  *   Forge accounts (just one person affected, this is already fixed)
>  *   Subscribers of mailing lists (no changes here, if I am right)
>
> The good news is that the level of activity of Friday, 3 was  
> unusually low, nearly no one was using the forge. I was at work that  
> Friday, and checked the activity log of the public wiki on  
> Saturday... there were changes from just two people (myself one of  
> them). I am hoping that the situation is similar in other tools and  
> that this has not caused too much harm to any of you.
>
> We are now thinking how to migrate to a new place, the same one that  
> hosts the Testbed (Red.es servers located in Seville). Our apologies  
> for all the trouble this may have caused.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Miguel
>
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