[SAC] Disk replacement

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Begin forwarded message from PEER1:
> 
>> The rebuild failed.
>>
>> We will need to schedule time to replace the harddrive and rebuild the 
>> raidset.
>>
>> Please provide a 3 hour maintanance window to perform the drive swap.
>> The server would be offline for 20 minutes.
>>
>> While the raid rebuild is occuring, you will be able to access the 
>> server.
> 
> The raid rebuild they had tried didn't work, so they want us to give 
> them a time when they can replace the drive.  What time would be good?  
> I'd say on the weekend at about this time:
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=12&year=2008&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=256 
> 
> 
> This makes it pretty clear for North America, Europe and Africa, though 
> for Asia / Australia it is during the day on the weekend.

Tyler,

The timing sounds ok to me.  We will need to distribute an outage notice
fairly widely.

Best regards,
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