[wp-edu] wp-edu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 3
Michael Barnard
mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu
Wed Jan 27 19:16:13 UTC 2016
I ended up writing a script to quiesce the database (even InnoDB, which
isn't reliably done with "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK" like MyISAM is), and
an LVM snapshot which then got wrapped up into a compressed tarball. It
worked great - it yielded consistent snapshots and the database was only
locked for a handful of seconds at most.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Michael McGlynn <
mcglynn_michael at wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:
> This caught my eye:
>
> "enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to dump the
> entire Wordpress database"
>
> So how, in fact, was the database backed up?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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>> 1. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
>> IT? (Ben Bakelaar)
>> 2. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
>> IT? (Michael Barnard)
>> 3. Re: Who has a large Wordpress network being run by central
>> IT? (Jim Doran)
>> 4. Commons in a Box (Grogan, David)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:25:57 -0500
>> From: Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
>> To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
>> <wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Who has a large Wordpress network being run by
>> central IT?
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>> That?s awesome, thanks!
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>> *From:* wp-edu [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf
>> Of *Jason
>> Heffner
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:16 AM
>> *To:* Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.
>> *Subject:* Re: [wp-edu] Who has a large Wordpress network being run by
>> central IT?
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>> Hi Ben,
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>> There is an unofficial list that someone started over at
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>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZmAqDjhkn-9GfkgiwK2lbQvuuMsCmmc6zNaZNVm_kI/edit#gid=0
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>> that might help
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>> p: (814) 865-1840, c: (814) 777-7665
>> Systems Administrator
>> Teaching and Learning with Technology, Information Technology Services
>> The Pennsylvania State University
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>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu> wrote:
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>> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
>> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
>> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number of
>> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
>> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
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>> BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
>> School of Communication and Information
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>> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>> p 848.932.8710
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>> From: Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu>
>> To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
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>> Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Who has a large Wordpress network being run by
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>> We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
>> internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
>> commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off the
>> top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
>> it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is fairly
>> substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
>> services are growing steadily.
>>
>> I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an internally-hosted
>> Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on
>> it
>> (enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to dump
>> the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
>> students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do prune
>> old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a gigantic
>> mass of abandoned content.
>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
>> wrote:
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>> > I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
>> > Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
>> > Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number
>> of
>> > sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
>> > internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
>> > School of Communication and Information
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>> > Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>> > p 848.932.8710
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>> From: Jim Doran <jim.doran at gmail.com>
>> To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
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>> Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Who has a large Wordpress network being run by
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>> University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC): http://sites.umbc.edu/
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>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
>> > internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
>> > commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off
>> the
>> > top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
>> > it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is
>> fairly
>> > substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
>> > services are growing steadily.
>> >
>> > I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an
>> internally-hosted
>> > Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on
>> > it (enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to
>> dump
>> > the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
>> > students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do
>> prune
>> > old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a
>> gigantic
>> > mass of abandoned content.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me
>> off-list.
>> >> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
>> >> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total
>> number of
>> >> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
>> >> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---------------------------------
>> >> BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
>> >> School of Communication and Information
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>> >> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>> >> p 848.932.8710
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>> From: "Grogan, David" <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>
>> To: Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.
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>> Subject: [wp-edu] Commons in a Box
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>> Hello folks,
>>
>> We are looking into standing up the WP based Commons in a Box (
>> http://commonsinabox.org/) from CUNY.
>>
>> Has anyone else on this list done this? I'm particularly interested in
>> how people built critical mass in terms of faculty use. How did you get
>> faculty engaged with the site and then maintain their interest in using it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
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>> David Grogan
>> Senior Solutions Specialist
>> Educational Technology Services (ETS) Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
>> Tufts University
>> 108 Bromfield Rd
>> Somerville, MA 02144
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