4 to 5 days maintenance

[SuperZay]

There will be 4 to 5 days maintenance, we have to ask your patience there. What we are planning at the moment: There are some EU recommended servers in an ADC (American Data Center). All the data from these servers will be copied to the EUDC (European Data Center). We will check the safety of the data, if they are secured okay. Once confirmed, we will ask players to log in. So some time is needed for copying the data and also for the check. This is why we have to ask for the 4 or 5 days maintenance, but after the maintenance you just log in and you will be in the new data center. We want to make it as smooth as possible for the players. All the details will become available on a later date, so please keep an eye out.
http://jpgames.de/2015/08/gamescom-2...naoki-yoshida/

Will this be applied to all datacenters or only 'EU'?

[Asierid]

I would assume the "extended" maintenance would be for those servers apart of the new EU center.

Not only do they have to copy all of that server information, but also migrate it to the new location, test it, and hope it works once everything is turned on.

As for the rest of us, I don't see how anything has to be done other than deleting the EU data from our data centers.

[Obysuca]

Will this be applied to all datacenters or only 'EU'?

>_> Too bad they aren't taking balmung or gilgamesh off of Aether and pushing it somewhere else. No reason to have the two biggest on one data center, which causes more problems than needed if something goes wrong on Aether (Aether's had problems quite a few times since HW, while other data centers have had less/none)

[GabrielK]

Now for a date for that migration...
I'm thinking of somewhere in October/November. Hopefully.

[Asierid]

>_> Too bad they aren't taking balmung or gilgamesh off of Aether and pushing it somewhere else. No reason to have the two biggest on one data center, which causes more problems than needed if something goes wrong on Aether (Aether's had problems quite a few times since HW, while other data centers have had less/none)

Why would you?

That's just asking to piss off a much larger player base than is necessary. Those that will want to migrate to the new data centers, will. I am willing to bet some kind of free transfer will be mentioned for those that wish to play on an EU server as well...

Course, this is nothing but assumptions...

[Gilthas]

Ugh, wasn't expecting such a long maintenance. I hope it'll be worth it.

[GabrielK]

I can only hope they'll pay as much attention to the European data center as they do to others.

[Chrolo]

time to transfer to NA and transfer back after the maintenance is completed =D

[sirDarts]

I would expect a shorter maintenance hitting the NA servers while stuff is getting prepared for the move, but I doubt you guys will get hit by the full 4-5 days.

[Daralii]

There is no EU data center so I reckon it will affect all the US data centers or a lot of it depending on where the EU servers are physically located. If they were always separate then I guess it shouldn't affect the US servers at all. I don't think the JP data centers will be affected though. EU players have been waiting for this for a long time but the article doesn't give any definite dates yet.

This whole interview is great though. A lot of interesting topics being addressed.

I don't think so, though I could be wrong. I'd assume that they'll bring down the EU servers so the data isn't changing anymore and then copy it so they can move it to the new datacenter, which shouldn't affect the American servers.

I know next to nothing about running servers, so I'm just spitballing.