Currently the trakt.tv site is down due to a database crash and they are recovering from a backup. They say on twitter it's going slow due to the size of the database. I can imagine that. How slow you can see from the fact that it's already getting to two days.
So this is your reminder, also to myself, to think about your recovery strategy. Just making backups is not enough. Also, backups are a last resort because the data transfer for the restore takes so long. If you want to be online again quickly, redundant/shadow servers and/or snapshots are a must.
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Frg-Tech
in reply to Gidi Kroon • • •This is very frustrating and is lowering my confidence in Trakt. I left #SIMKL for Trakt and still think it's better, but you could get automated monthly backups there.
The fact that they will not say when their last backup data was is very scary. I can't believe they are not making nightly incremental backups. I feel like the other shoe is about to drop. *sigh*
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Frg-Tech • •Frg-Tech
in reply to Gidi Kroon • • •LoL, indeed.
I just saw that the backup is from Nov 7th. Guh!
Of course I had just spent something in the order of 5 hours the week prior to the crash sorting out my watch history. Being new, I was making the mistake of adding prior watched items to my current timeline, vs when it was released. This might be entirely my fault 😜