JemmyMatrix.org - Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
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Jeena
matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem
“Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary on db-01.”
Wow, mistake on top of mistake on top of mistake it’s impressive they could recover without data loss.
I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it’s back up.
I didn’t even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.