Possible Outage
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Possible Outage
The time is nearly here when the server that this site resides upon will be moved. This could take one of several paths, the existing server could be unplugged and thrown in the back of a truck for a ride over to Bend, OR, plugged back in and working in 3 - 4 hours, it could be driven across town and plugged in on the top floor of one of the $5 million black glass upside-down pyramid building that the radio station lives in, or the old server might be trashed and a new server substituted, in which case I get to rebuild the entire site one file at a time and then get it to come up and run again. I don't know which.
The point is that in the next few days, things are going to change, maybe a lot for me, maybe not at all from the user's prespective. I'll keep fairly extensive database backups, but be warned that when/if they take the server offline between backups, any new data ~may~ be lost, depending on which scenario plays out.
Uhg, the only thing that could make this worse is having it happen during tax season...
The point is that in the next few days, things are going to change, maybe a lot for me, maybe not at all from the user's prespective. I'll keep fairly extensive database backups, but be warned that when/if they take the server offline between backups, any new data ~may~ be lost, depending on which scenario plays out.
Uhg, the only thing that could make this worse is having it happen during tax season...
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The waiting goes on....
I've been backing up the forum database every few hours, and just now got finished making tarballs of every file on the site and downloading them to my home computer in anticipation of having to reload the entire site from a bare server disk.
Keep that backup forum address handy, I hope we don't need it, but if we don't that only means that the inevitable server swap has been delayed, not averted
I've been backing up the forum database every few hours, and just now got finished making tarballs of every file on the site and downloading them to my home computer in anticipation of having to reload the entire site from a bare server disk.
Keep that backup forum address handy, I hope we don't need it, but if we don't that only means that the inevitable server swap has been delayed, not averted
- Dennis The Bus Dweller
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