Future Site Downtime
 

The site's back online, obviously. Let me know if you find anything weird. I still have to optimize some of the configs. -Brandon 01/17 Noon CST


The harddive that our OS runs on is failing and could die at any moment, so I am working with our host to figure out the best time to take the site down, do a full backup, install a new drive, reinstall the OS, and rebuild everything.

It will most likely be this weekend sometime. I'll update this post with the exact date/times for the two outages. (First, to verify the drive is indeed failing, and second to do the reinstall)

The drive test will be 23:00 CST on 01/13/2009 (tonight) and could last 4-6 hours. The site will not be available during this time.

The drive is predicting that it will fail (ain't technology great?) .. so they're replacing the drive for us this Friday evening. The site will be down for 12-48 hours starting Friday after 16:00 CST (so, plan for all weekend) -- sorry for any inconvenience.

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Man, 4-6 hours w/o CD? :eek:

*shudders* What harddrive do you guys run off of btw?

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Oh good, I'll finally stop being distracted from my math homework :p

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I suggest starting about 1 or 2 in the afternoon (your time) on Saturday, and getting it done in about 6 hours, then we won't miss anything...we'll be busy building....

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4-6 hours for the drive test .. they didn't give a length for the OS reinstall .. it may be 6+ hours for that as well ..

I wouldn't schedule the OS reload until Friday night, so i can spend all day Saturday reconfiguring everything.

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Wow, you never really think about such things as the hard drive until it starts to fail.

I shudder at the thought of thousands upon thousands of robotics fanatics struggling to find a suitable alternative, consequently killing hundreds of robotics-related websites and forums from the shear increase in traffic! :eek:

Just kidding. :D Thanks for the heads up! :)

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Can you have your host clone your old drive to the new one?

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Ah well more time to spend on DA I guess.

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Man I had my night planned already....way to ruin it....
joking....

Hope you fix whatever it is!

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There is the chatroom at http://frc-chat.webs.com/ that hasn't seen much traffic.

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
:eek:

Wetzel

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1600 CST = 4:00pm CST

Which means, 5:00pm on the east coast?

Less than 10 hours!

Hope the changeover goes well :)

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Yes -- and most likely I'll be taking things down an hour or two beforehand just to make sure I get a full database backup before they shut it down.

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If it's down all weekend do I get a $0.09 refund as a paid forum supporter?

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I think the 9 cents is credited to the time before you were a paid forum supporter