ntang (ntang) wrote,
ntang
ntang

life ees hell

I wish I was French, because I think sometimes only the French can really portray the black-and-white chain-smoking nihilism I'm feeling right now. We're trying to do a live data migration from one site to another, live in the sense of less-than-one-hour-of-downtime from site to site. All of the vendors we talked to said it was impossible. I said it was. One finally said they'd give it a shot.

Anyways, we started on Friday working on this move (of course weeks of prep work ahead of time) and things were looking good - we figured just a few minutes of downtime per database, everything going smoothly. Basically: shut down at old site, start up at new site. Almost no downtime at all. What part is screwing us? The standard files. We have over 30 million user-uploaded images, and keeping them in sync between two locations is turning out to be monstrously painful. None of the standard tools, or even the non-standard ones, seem to be cutting it.

Anyways... I'm very very tired, since Friday morning I've worked approximately 45 hours... if my math is right. I think so. Who knows. Yay!

So to sum it up in one word: despair.
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