500 Errors when Writing to the Database on PyPI

Incident Report for Python Infrastructure

Resolved

The backup files have been purged and the script is now being updated to correctly handle deletion.
Posted Dec 17, 2014 - 12:26 UTC

Identified

A programming error has caused the backup script to not purge old backups, causing the database disk drive to fill up.
Posted Dec 17, 2014 - 12:16 UTC

Investigating

There are 500 errors when writing to the Database on PyPI.
Posted Dec 17, 2014 - 11:58 UTC