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[Gizardpuke]

so weekly maintenance takes 3 hours to complete, irrespective of whether there is a code change or not.
and with the impressive state of hardware and virtualization these days, what are you doing that make it take so long when there are no code changes?

[Ratt1eHead]

Think a bit larger than the laptop or PC sitting in front of you...racks and racks of servers to move all of this data. You really think a sever or two will handle these kind of loads? Think just a bit, before you post, then, think some more.

[Scofield2k30]

Gaming forums and thinking? cmon man an you wonder why ppl stereotype gamers?

[Gizardpuke]

Think a bit larger than the laptop or PC sitting in front of you...racks and racks of servers to move all of this data. You really think a sever or two will handle these kind of loads? Think just a bit, before you post, then, think some more.

hey trololol. i know how racks work. i also know how far hardware has advanced in the last couple of years.
the question is, what data are they moving?

they cannot be shutting down for a weekly backup, as those can be done online with any enterprise class RDBMS. even the OS can be backed up while its all online.
if they are "moving" data. what are they moving and why does it need to be moved.
in this day and age, with xeon processor speeds, and how fast things are becoming, how cheap and reliable disk and memory are, and how they are pretty much have 99.9% uptime, whats taking 3 hours?

even WoW, which takes a similar time, does this, but it has at least 10x the servers to maintain.

even reporting can be done without impacting server performance (caveat - if its built and configured properly).
so maybe your hte one that needs to "Think just a bit, before you post, then, think some more".

[landzai]

I think that's 3 hours of backing up the database. How else do you think they can find the data of those players that get locked out of their xbox and roll it back to April 12th? Do you think everything just magically happens?

[Gizardpuke]

I think that's 3 hours of backing up the database. How else do you think they can find the data of those players that get locked out of their xbox and roll it back to April 12th? Do you think everything just magically happens?

as i mentioned, any enterprise class RDBMS (or noSQL database) can be backed up while online, and be in a consistent state for restores.
thats the easy part.