Tech talk - sorry.

August 29, 2005

Those of you interested in the tech end of things may be interested to know that last night the Orlop files at gilford.textdrive.com were moved from a server on the east coat to a new server in San Diego with nary a glitch. This involved a change in IP addresses and DNS records (and a lot of other magical stuff that I don’t ken). The actual transfer of data was done using rsync, a slick file transfer program that I use regularly. This site “went black” for an hour or so, but I was asleep and wasn’t aware of it.

I was able to follow the process of one-by-one migration of the half-dozen servers here. The guys (and maybe gals, too) spent a long weekend effecting the migration, apparently without losing customer data or worse. An impressive feat!

I had only to edit my hosts file to change the address and regenerate my known_hosts file to restore ssh access to the new server. All the rest was transparent to me.

Now, back to speaking English.

Dave, admiring tech feats like this.

Posted by Dave | Filed Under Technology