Comments on: Server Downtime http://www.distantparts.com/2006/08/24/67/ Random thoughts from a far off place Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:12:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steven http://www.distantparts.com/2006/08/24/67/#comment-831 Steven Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:11:09 +0000 http://www.distantparts.com/2006/08/24/67/#comment-831 Bit of a problem. Somehow this work has been scheduled for today rather than tomorrow. I thought I was pretty clear about Saturday morning being the quietest time, but I have a bad feeling that person I talked to latched onto me saying "Midnight on Friday", which is unfortunately a little ambiguous. Lesson learned - midnight can mean two different days to different people. I have a tested backup (it restored correctly onto my development server), but not quite as recent (a few days old) as I would have liked. Fingers crossed that the server will be back soon and the backup won't be needed. Bit of a problem. Somehow this work has been scheduled for today rather than tomorrow. I thought I was pretty clear about Saturday morning being the quietest time, but I have a bad feeling that person I talked to latched onto me saying “Midnight on Friday”, which is unfortunately a little ambiguous. Lesson learned - midnight can mean two different days to different people.

I have a tested backup (it restored correctly onto my development server), but not quite as recent (a few days old) as I would have liked. Fingers crossed that the server will be back soon and the backup won’t be needed.

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