Administrivia: Updates and backup tonight

Hi there,

What? Backups and security patches
When? Midnight Saturday 16 June 2012
How long? About an hour

More details:

There's a pretty important security update to apply to the server. Honestly, it's not that critical to us as I have the database server listening locally, so it's unexploitable remotely, and if you've broken into the machine, I have bigger problems than a trivially exploitable MySQL issue. However, I like to keep on top of these things.

Patches for tonight:

[*]MySQL Server and client - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1467-1/
[*]APT - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1477-1/

As it changes our database server and client libraries, a backup will occur just before the patch.

thanks,
Andrew

did u look at Silvers account

carnt figure it out

All done.

@VW54 Let me do that now.

There will be a back up tonight at midnight. 🙂

It's about to start. Will take around an hour all up. Service will resume automatically, and be slow for about another 10-20 minutes after you can get back on here (other backups need to be taken, too!).

All done. Just updating the backend software. This should be done in a few minutes.

thanks,
Andrew

Software updates to backend software completed (none of which run this forum).

Please report any problems here.

Thanks,
Andrew

👍thank you