learn to migrate

[natebrennand]

As I logged onto the box the website is running on (in order to copy a nginx config), I learned that it might be about time to migrate to a larger instance.

Usage of /: 87.1% of 19.56GB

[schlosser]

Would you teach me how to do this? Also, might there be a way to reduce usage on this box?

Are you available during labs this week (1:30-5:30 on Friday) to work on this at all?

[natebrennand]

I'm TA'ing a class all weekend so I can't be at labs. Let's try to outline everything that will need to be done:

• database migration
• DNS migration

It would make sense to finish migrating to docker/consul and run the new box with that.

It would be awesome if we set up a way to back up the database too. I'm imagining a script that creates an archive file then ships it to S3 running on a cron job.

Thoughts?

[schlosser]

Also migrating all of the misc configuration scripts... like:

• ~/<repo>.git/hooks/post-recieve
• /etc/nginx/sites-available/*

[thebrianzeng]

dan figured out that this was happening because of all the docker images
(~800 MB) each and deleted a lot of them. so i think this can be closed?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:03 PM Nate notifications@github.com wrote:

As I logged onto the box the website is running on (in order to copy a
nginx config), I learned that it might be about time to migrate to a larger
instance.

Usage of /: 87.1% of 19.56GB

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[natebrennand]

I still think there should be some scheme to backup the database, unless we're OK with relying on Digital Ocean's full VM backup image.

[schlosser]

Yeah you're right, we need a migration scheme

[schlosser]

What would this look like? Is a cronjob to backup the DB to S3 all you were thinking of?

[natebrennand]

DB + images. Just something that makes a tarball and uploads it daily

[schlosser]

Do we have an S3 account? Does it have $$?

[natebrennand]

We don't have an ADI AWS account. However, we can make one and pay for it. Ideally hackathon attendees can bring back extra promo codes to apply to it so that charges are minimal