[Cheddar-users] Cheddar maintenance this Wednesday morning

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:39:38PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 09:10:06PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>Hi again!
>>
>>On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:23:45PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm heading into the data centre this Wednesday morning to fit some
>>>new storage to cheddar. It *should* all work with the system entirely
>>>online, but just in case be warned that cheddar may end up rebooting
>>>at short notice!
>>
>>This all went well and I've replaced one of the SSDs we were using,
>>migrating onto a new drive. I'm planning to revisit again next week
>>(probably Wednesday 14th morning) and swap out the other old drive
>>that's still there.
>
>Confirming: I will be working on cheddar tomorrow morning. This *will*
>involve a reboot when I'm done swapping disks, probably around 12:00.

In fact, it's not going to - the data sync onto the new drive is
taking much longer than expected. I'll have to do that next week.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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