I'm looking at the database export page and it looks like the files for 2025-08-04 are suspiciously small for Pools, Posts, and Wiki Pages. What happened there?

Ouch, looks like a truncation. Looks fixed now, though. The hiccup is over.

Why did it happen? Who knows, everything about the exports is entirely private, even with myself being heavily involved in development at one point I never saw any part of it

The files once uncompressed are zero bytes so their export likely just failed and spit out that empty file, and whatever fault tolerances are in place just kept moving along like nothing happened

Because of only the most recent 4 exports being kept those from the 4th are going to disappear next time the exports are generated, which should be around 7AM UTC tomorrow

Fun unrelated fact, I've just noticed the time inside the containers I have that download the exports daily are apparently using CST instead of EEST (EEST being the server's timezone), so when they're set to download at 10:50AM rather than being just after the export was created it's 8 hours afterwards... woo
When I actually correct that timezone I'm going that have to push up from :50 since the exports are finishing at :47 now

The prevailing theory on the Discord server is that

...the location it writes to ran out of space and the script doesn't have proper error handling...

Source

aacafah said:
The prevailing theory on the Discord server is that
Source

LOL, well obviously. Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything. :whistles innocently:

BRB - need to make space on my laptop's drives. ;)