I'm not sure entirely what changes have happened in the last day or so since this update was announced (I belive Niet mentioned the fix was to remove the shelter from being backed up) but I'd like to throw some numbers out that I saw with today's backup:
- Backup began at 10:12 and ended at 10:22 - only 10 minutes, not the previously estimated 20. Probably has something to do with the above-mentioned change.
- Only about 280 people were logged in at the time when backup began.
- The backup progression went pretty quickly until 64% completion, where it sat for the longest time (about 6 minutes). I wonder what happens at that stage? It went pretty quickly again after passing that point.
Just some things to think about, moving forward with this debate.
If you can't tell I get pretty bored sometimes and document/pay attention to random things
I can explain the time difference - a change was made that we haven't yet announced since we wanted to check the result of it first. It wouldn't have led to any misplaced information so it was fine to wait on it and see what the time-related result was.
Since 10 minutes is apparently the time it took, I think it's safe to say improvements have been made!
That said, I'll stop rambling and explain. The shelter information didn't need saving because everything in the shelter is populated from a different table that states that the Pokémon / eggs belong to "null". Everything that belongs to "null" is in the shelter. The shelter "re-populates" itself every 15 minutes. So as long as that 'different table' that I mentioned has the relevant information in it, the shelter itself is basically covered. It might take until the next shelter update to 'show up' but that's, at worst, a 15 minute wait, which if we've had to rollback... Is the least of our problems xD
Since I'm here, I will quickly respond to the other bullet points c':
The number of people online at the time of the backup is a non-issue. There could be 3,000 people online and the only reason that would take longer is because of the fact that 3,000 people online would mean we're generating about 3x the information we are now (at the peakest of times) :p
64% Is about The Pokémon - 67% should be the timelines. So sayeth the Noot. Or something like that, anyway - that's not specific-specific but it should help give you an idea :D
That said, I'm gonna go ahead and edit the first post ^^
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