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Our database server crashed unexpectedly on friday night and we were down over most of the weekend.

Incident Timeline

DateTimeState
2018-06-1516:20Database server becomes unresponsive. This additionally takes down a couple of file systems that Galaxy uses
2018-06-1516:36Processes become unresponsive, monitoring data stops coming in
2018-06-1517:44Galaxy stops responding
2018-06-1522:56We notify our database administrator about the issue
2018-06-1720:45Email received that our database admin has finished repairing the server
2018-06-1721:04We manually restart the Galaxy server processes
2018-06-1721:15The first jobs run successfully again
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Resolution

We are discussing our long term options to preventing, or at least ameliorating similar issues in the future. We are investigating the possibly of keeping Galaxy online but read-only, and how this might impact our users.