{"id":9978,"date":"2014-01-13T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:33:27","slug":"dropbox-outage-postmortem-not-hacked-just-another-maintenance-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dropbox-outage-postmortem-not-hacked-just-another-maintenance-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox Outage Postmortem: Not Hacked, Just Another Maintenance Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From Dropbox:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;On Friday at 5:30 PM PT, we had a planned maintenance scheduled to upgrade the OS on some of our machines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;In this case, a bug in the script caused the upgrade to run on a handful of machines serving production traffic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;some master-slave pairs were impacted which resulted in the site going down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;We were able to restore most functionality within 3 hours, but the large size of some of our databases slowed recovery, and it took until 4:40 PM PT today for core service to fully return.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.dropbox.com\/2014\/01\/outage-post-mortem\/\">Deeper details<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=15baeb74-2500-409f-8162-b976322644ee\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/-oZEk9kdx1Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From Dropbox: &hellip;On Friday at 5:30 PM PT, we had a planned maintenance scheduled to upgrade the OS on some of our machines. &hellip;In this case, a bug in the script caused the upgrade to run on a handful of machines serving production traffic. &hellip;some master-slave pairs were impacted which resulted in the site [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,1534,1749,599,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropbox","category-fail","category-file-sharing","category-outage-alert","category-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}