Down time schedule

I'm finally happy with the VM configuration I'll be using for puck, so tomorrow I will be transferring the filesystems to the new server. If all that seems stable, I'll be moving the server to the data center on Thursday morning. So...

* * * Maintenance Announcement * * *

Puck will be going offline on Tuesday, June 30th, around 10am Eastern time, to transfer the system image to new hardware. This outage may last for several hours depending on how long it takes to copy all the data to new filesystems on the new server.

Puck will be going offline again on Thursday, July 2nd, around 9:30am Eastern time, to move the new hardware into the new data center. This outage will last for around one hour.

Back online

Power has been restored to puck and it is currently checking quotas and will be fully online shortly.

Power outage

As a result of the thunderstorms in Pittsburgh, we lost power at our house, taking down all of the equipment in our basement including puck. Naturally this had to happen during the only time in May and June that both of us are out of town for more than 36 hours.

Once power is restored I'll have somebody visit our house and reset all the equipment, but until then, there's nothing I can do.

Puck should be moved into the new data center by the end of this month, which will eliminate any risk of outages due to power loss.