On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > On 12065 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> ries.debian.org, the host behind ftp-master.debian.org, has hardware >> trouble, a failed memory module keeps resetting the machine at random >> intervals. > >> Will send a notice when service is back to normal. > > And another update for you all out there, waiting: > > After several ping-pongs the support finally understood that no round of > firmware updates, changing slots of the DIMMs and trying whatever does > not help, so we are now waiting for a new mainboard to arrive, as well > as a technician. The current timeline lets us assume this is done, latest, > day after tomorrow, please be patient. Will keep you updated when status > changes. > > The backup plan still is moving this service to another machine. This > hasn't been done yet for various reasons. One of them is simply that it > took a little longer to move the remaining services away from it, but > also the amount of work included. > > Now, should the technician not be able to resurrect ries, our backup > plan extends to have the disks shipped over and replace the ones > currently in rietz.
I'm wondering if Debian has the resources (DSA, local admins and hardware) to have a hot-swappable backup machine for ftpmaster, since it does go down occasionally and when it does the downtime is fairly disruptive to Debian. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2oe13a36b31003302254h2ef20b6ey61f4922cee6ae...@mail.gmail.com
