[auton-users] Auton Fileserver Outage, Sunday Night - Monday Morning

[Michael J. Baysek]

Just a reminder of the server outage tonight

On 8/4/2006 8:47 AM, Michael J. Baysek wrote:
> Hello Lab,
>
> This is a notice of some upcoming system downtime.  The outage window 
> was selected to cause the least inconvenience.
>
> _What:_
>
> We will be taking down our primary file server and failing over to our 
> backup file server.  This is the second step in upgrading the 
> operating systems on our file server infrastructure. 
>
> Prior to this happening, the CPU will be upgraded in our backup file 
> server.  Due to a number of other configuration optimizations, I will 
> be working on throughout the night, you may experience intermittent 
> periods of downtime during the outage window.
>
> _The following services will be intermittent during the outage window:_
>
> BigPapa Home Directories
> LOP access
> CVS and Subversion
>
> If your desktop machine [running Linux] is set to have your home 
> directory on BigPapa, this outage will prevent you from logging into 
> your machine periodically throughout the outage window.  If this case 
> applies to you, and you need to use your machine during this time, 
> create yourself a local account with a different name [from your 
> BigPapa user name] on your machine, and copy any data you need to your 
> hard drive.
>
> _When:_
>
> Start time:  10:30 PM, Sunday
> End time:     6:30 AM, Monday
>
> There will be another (albeit, shorter) outage window, when the 
> servers will resume their original roles.  This will be announced next 
> week.
>
> -- 
>
> Michael J. Baysek, Systems Analyst
> Carnegie Mellon University, Auton Lab
>
> 412-268-8939 Office
> mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu
> http://www.autonlab.org
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