Go quiet on writes before migrating a database VM
ToolsStop all writers before a VM migration
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just shut down. All the aggregators shut down the pod paying watcher, all that kind of stuff. And like, okay, radio silence on the rights. And then wait and hope and just cross your fingers.
Episode 169: Wifi & Web Apps (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:07:01 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Before triggering Linode's live migration of the Podcast Index's main database VM, the busiest and heaviest-writing machine, Dave shut down all the aggregators and the Podping watcher so there was radio silence on writes, then let the migration run.
Not in the audio. The transcript has 'rights'; context makes clear he means database writes.