Thread: Planned Server Downtime

Just to let you all know there is planned server downtime tonight from 10.30pm to 7.30am CET whilst the servers are being moved to a new location.

Thanks,

The worries are when something on the server prevents the reboot and services all starting up again.. can be hard to pinpoint.. On this server however everything seems to have gone smoothly, on my other one however it's a different story so looks like i'm in for a long morning....

Yes, don't look forward to having to reboot machines. Our home Linux desktops get rebooted only every 4 months or so, and our household file server only when a power failure outlasts its UPS.

Good luck tracking down the issue! This reminds me I am overdue to backup our server onto a couple of external drives.

Thanks, got it working fairly rapidly thank the lord! turned out to be a problem with my Grub configuration! (that'll have people raising an eyebrow! lol)

Originally Posted by dave

Thanks, got it working fairly rapidly thank the lord! turned out to be a problem with my Grub configuration! (that'll have people raising an eyebrow! lol)

Not me! Nearly every machine I have has multiple OS's installed, so I fool around with various GRUB setups all the time. Coolest one for our student machines is to have GRUB installed in its own one cylinder partition (and chainload the OS's). Trivial to reinstall it into the MBR when the students inevitably muck up the MBR.

Glad to hear you found it fast! Oops, I still didn't do the backups (and there are thunderstorms about)!

Originally Posted by dave

Thanks, got it working fairly rapidly thank the lord! turned out to be a problem with my Grub configuration! (that'll have people raising an eyebrow! lol)

dont know who Grub is but the site is loading much quicker for me now

Originally Posted by Louie-Louie

dont know who Grub is

GRUB = GRand Unified Bootloader