[SAC] Drupal "development" Instance / New logins

[Howard Butler]

I do not hope to gum up the works, but I must admit to being somewhat  
skeptical of running our lives on MySQL.  I spent a few hours last  
week recovering GDAL's bugzilla instance from a crashed table due to  
a disk filling up and mucking up MySQL's transaction stuff.  I know  
that bazillions of sites do their business on MySQL, so maybe the  
problem was just the storage backend that was chosen, and nothing more.

I suggest we use a full mysqldump backup strategy (with a mirror of  
it to the TelaScience system) until it is no longer practical to do  
so.  Also, I suggest we make sure to use a transactional MySQL  
backend in hopes of preventing MySQL hiccups that can occur with  
something like MyISAM.

Howard

On Dec 5, 2006, at 7:55 AM, shawn barnes wrote:

> I think it's a great idea.  I'll never disagree with using a  
> testing environment before installing and working on live systems.
> i'm going to begin working on the new servers today and will be  
> installing drupal, et al. in the next couple of days, is there a  
> specific version of drupal/drupal-modules/mysql to install?
>
> shawn
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> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> Sounds fine to me.  Shawn, will this fit with your approach?
>>
>> Btw, we just received access to our new servers from PEER1  
>> hosting, so
>> now Shawn has access to the production systems.
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>> On 12/4/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Hobu,
>>>
>>> Could you create an LDAP account for Kanhaiya Kale (perhaps userid
>>> "kanhaiya" like he uses on the cn system).
>>>
>>> Everyone,
>>>
>>> My intention is for Kanhaiya (KK if I may) to setup a  
>>> "development" drupal
>>> instance on shell.telascience.org (198.202.74.218).  For now this  
>>> will be
>>> where we can see what the script-loaded html content from the  
>>> www.osgeo.org
>>> web site will look in Drupal, but longer term I forsee this being  
>>> the
>>> development Drupal server assuming we want to be a bit careful  
>>> about how we
>>> handle the "live" Drupal server once it is the live OSGeo web  
>>> presence.
>>>
>>> I don't see this "using up" .218, it should just be one of a few  
>>> things that
>>> go on there.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any concerns with this use of the .218 server?   
>>> I believe
>>> John is already looking into setting up the right version of mysql.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> -- 
>>> --------------------------------------- 
>>> +--------------------------------------
>>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>>> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http:// 
>>> osgeo.org
>>>
>>>
>>
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