Sometime early this morning, our database started having issues, most likely due to a disk corruption issue.

Unfortunately the postgres database was unrecoverable, and we had to restore from a nightly backup, so a few hours of posts and comments will be missing.

Apologies again for the downtime, and for the disruption.

  • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    6 months ago

    How does lemmy federation work in this case? Conceivably after being restored from backup the lemmy.ml instance could see those few hours of lost history as federated to other lemmy instances and resync it back as the host instance. Obv I’m vastly oversimplifiying things but what happens today?

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        It strikes me that there is the potential to use trusted remote servers as a means of recovering the lost data. I mean, nearly every lemmy instance except lemmy.ml will have copies of the missing data, and given the hugely redundant availability of that data (including the ability to compare from multiple sources to establish/verify trust), using that data to rebuild missing content seems like it could be useful functionality.

        • heyfrancis@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          If I understand, federating contents through ActivityPub only works once. Sounds a good feature to re-download contents again, but may introduce additional work as there should be some way to know if a content is missing then another job to rebuild

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      That doesnt work because we generally cant trust remote servers. Plus we dont even know where to fetch from, so wed have to run a complete crawl of all known instances which isnt practical.

  • beta_tester@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    No worries! Is there an announcement anywhere in case it’s down? Mastodon? Matrix?

  • spaphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    222·
    6 months ago

    I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM MAD

    HOW DARE THIS FREE SERVICE I USE GO DOWN HOW EVER WILL I POST MEMES FROM MY OPAL THRONE

    Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

    also thank you for hosting us and working on the issue!

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    6 months ago

    When I saw LemmyMl was down I went to sleep and had a dream where I was eating extremely large fries that that were labeled on the fryholder “Sadistically Large” (chicken fries as well as potato fries) and drinking probiotic shakes so dangerous they literally had to be bundled with a free antibiotic shake by law which of course I took one sip of in front of the clerk to calm them down before guzzling the other shake down with impunity. Woke up before I found find out what the burger was. Maybe those anti-woke types are on to something.

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      This was, without any doubt, a prophetic dream. The apocalypse will soon be upon us! Be wary of the four horsemen: Ronald, King, Wendy, and… Chihuahua

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    I saw the “502 Gateway” HTTP error message, but I never even closed my browser tab. I refreshed again today and Lemmy.ml was back online! Thanks for your hard work!