Main File server scheduled maintanance

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear Autonians,

I do have a verified good up to date copies of your home directories. In
order for me to rebuild our main file server I need to switch NFS mounts
of your home directories on all desktops and computing nodes from
current file server to our backup server. I was thinking to try to pull
the trigger on Thursday April 19 at 3:00 PM EST. This happen to be the
first day of CMU Carnival so for many students next day 4/20/2018 is
school holiday. Switching from main file server to backup should not
take more then few hours. During that time Auton Lab infrastructure will
not be available. I figured that giving you a 7 day notice will give you
enough time to plan for the down time. In the case of impending
deadlines please speak up now.

Best,
Predrag

P.S. Members of the Neill group who have their own file server (12 in
total) are not affected by this down time.