Site downtime [Completed]

Posted by Steve on Tue 28 Aug 2007 at 10:27

The machine hosting this site is suffering from a failing disk, and will be shut down shortly so that a new drive may be fitted. Update: Migration complete.

The expected downtime should only be a couple of hours, but you never can tell. As there is only a single disk the site will need to be reinstalled from the CVS repository, and the server reconfigured from scratch.

Now is a good time to remind all users to test their backup and restore cycles.

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