Unplanned outages 08/2020

[Oliver]

Hey,

as you may have noticed there were two outages lately. One on the last weekend, another (much shorter one) this morning.

They were related, but the root cause - which I only learned this morning - should be fixed now. Either way, apologies for the issues.

There is one thing, however: due to the nature of the root cause and an unrelated issue with the backup server, I was only able to play back a backup from after 23:00 CEST yesterday (after 21:00 UTC). This means anything in between is likely lost. Apologies for the inconvenience. I will later adjust my backup procedures in an attempt to prevent this from happening in the future. Normally a backup should not be older than one hour (well, in case an outage happens it could be slightly older, but at the time the outage starts it should not be older than that).