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2010-10-25 , 21:58
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Old-school backup system where you have to take down the service for a while? I thought everyone did backups on the fly these days (i.e. RAID, Tivoli, etc.). More curious than anything, old-school backup system is a pain but I'm sure it's cheaper, too.
Yes, the backup is online and set to incremental. For some reason though, MySQL locks some of the major tables during the backup making the the site seem unaccessible. The major tables are quite large as well.

I'm checking some more items that might be causing the problem now. It looks like the server is responding well now, despite the not so low server load.

Just to clarify, the forum server is separate from the other parts of maemo.org. As nidO has mentioned, it's the spike on the number of visitors in the forum that causes the forum server outage.
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