Blogger Buzz: Blogger is back に謝罪がしっかり掲載されていますが、メンテナンスは新たな傷口を残すことになったようです。定期的なメンテナンスは水曜日の夜の間に行われているようですが、日本では午後に更新をしていたユーザーもあることでしょう。
メンテナンスの際にデータの破損を発見。これを復旧させようとしたことが20時間に及ぶ、ログインが出来ない大事に発展した模様。Bloggerは一端、メンテナンス以前のバックアップにロールバックをしたので５月13日に投稿できた記事は現在表示されていません。

画像が失われているユーザーもあるようで日本のユーザーが被害の割合は大きいかも知れません。わたしのBloggerブログでは９回分の更新記事が投稿されていない状態にタイムスリップしています。APIから投稿した記事ですから、復元はされることはないかも知れません。

Blogger is back

 

What a frustrating day. We’re very sorry that you’ve been unable to publish to Blogger for the past 20.5 hours. We’re nearly back to normal — you can publish again, and in the coming hours posts and comments that were temporarily removed should be restored.  Thank you for your patience while we fix this situation.  We use Blogger for our own blogs, so we’ve also felt your pain.

Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that’s why you haven’t been able to publish.  We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11th, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we’re in the progress of restoring.

Again, we are very sorry for the impact to our authors and readers.  We try hard to ensure Blogger is always available for you to share your thoughts and opinions with the world, and we’ll do our best to prevent this from happening again.

Posted by Eddie Kessler, Tech Lead/Manager, Blogger