Future Site Downtime

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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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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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. :smiley: Thanks for the heads up! :slight_smile:

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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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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
: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 :slight_smile:

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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

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One word: IRC :slight_smile:

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We all hope it goes well. We’ll see you when you get back.:smiley:

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Good luck with the site. We will see you when you are back up.

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Up already. It must of went well. Sweet

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Whew, it was going to be a long day without CD.

Great work.