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bearnol Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 3 Dec 06 Posts: 316 Credit: 13,268,714 RAC: 4,410	Message 534 - Posted: 13 Sep 2021, 10:16:43 UTC
Hello All, I do backups (currently) twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays generally. Last night (Sunday 12th), I had a catastrophic server failure, and had to restore to a new machine from the latest backup (Thursday 9th). So if you notice any lost work, that’s why. The old server (Lappy) was a 2008 MacBook running Mac OSX Leopard, and had been in continual service for about 13 years. He will be missed… On the plus side, the new server _may_ be a bit faster. Regards, James (Wanless) [bearnol] ____________
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Dirk Broer Send message Joined: 6 Dec 13 Posts: 19 Credit: 26,804,699 RAC: 11,274	Message 535 - Posted: 13 Sep 2021, 12:03:12 UTC - in response to Message 534. Last modified: 13 Sep 2021, 12:17:50 UTC
I do hope that the new server is -at least- the former top model Power Mac G5, "Cypher" with four PowerPC 970MP cores, and the full 16 GB of DDR2 RAM. If you have chosen for a laptop again, make it the Apple M1 equipped MacBookPro 17.1 -also with 16 GB, but now DDR4. ____________
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PDW Send message Joined: 15 Aug 14 Posts: 2 Credit: 73,642,855 RAC: 70,158	Message 536 - Posted: 13 Sep 2021, 12:58:12 UTC Last modified: 13 Sep 2021, 13:11:04 UTC
66 lost credit...
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[AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005 Send message Joined: 20 Oct 09 Posts: 5 Credit: 2,022,059 RAC: 0	Message 537 - Posted: 13 Sep 2021, 13:33:27 UTC
I suppose you mean "66k" ? it was -60k for me :( I assume we must "Always look on the bright side of life" : using a 13 years old laptop as a server, we could have lost hundreds thousands of credits since the beginning of the project :)
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PDW Send message Joined: 15 Aug 14 Posts: 2 Credit: 73,642,855 RAC: 70,158	Message 538 - Posted: 13 Sep 2021, 15:17:27 UTC - in response to Message 537.
I suppose you mean "66k" ? it was -60k for me :( 66 is the number of those in the list who lost credit
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vaughan Send message Joined: 11 Mar 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 38,532,153 RAC: 15,114	Message 539 - Posted: 15 Sep 2021, 5:38:29 UTC
RIP Lappy. ____________
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Dirk Broer Send message Joined: 6 Dec 13 Posts: 19 Credit: 26,804,699 RAC: 11,274	Message 559 - Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 11:27:56 UTC
How is the new server holding up? We lost January 7 and halfway January 8 the credit was restored to that of January 6 and all WUs processed after January 6 declared overtime - even when they were credited before, suggesting a major database crash. ____________
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bearnol Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 3 Dec 06 Posts: 316 Credit: 13,268,714 RAC: 4,410	Message 560 - Posted: 10 Jan 2022, 13:22:57 UTC - in response to Message 559.
Yes, that’s correct. The server crashed and although I was apparently able to repair the database (on the 7th) something still wasn’t right and one of the logs went haywire, filling up the HDD. Eventually I decided the safest thing was to restore from the 48hr old backup. ____________
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Hello All,
I do backups (currently) twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays generally.
Last night (Sunday 12th), I had a catastrophic server failure, and had to restore to a new machine from the latest backup (Thursday 9th). So if you notice any lost work, that’s why.
The old server (Lappy) was a 2008 MacBook running Mac OSX Leopard, and had been in continual service for about 13 years. He will be missed…
On the plus side, the new server _may_ be a bit faster.
Regards,
James (Wanless) [bearnol]
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I do hope that the new server is -at least- the former top model Power Mac G5, "Cypher" with four PowerPC 970MP cores, and the full 16 GB of DDR2 RAM.
If you have chosen for a laptop again, make it the Apple M1 equipped MacBookPro 17.1 -also with 16 GB, but now DDR4.
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66 lost credit...

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I suppose you mean "66k" ? it was -60k for me :(

I assume we must "Always look on the bright side of life" : using a 13 years old laptop as a server, we could have lost hundreds thousands of credits since the beginning of the project :)

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I suppose you mean "66k" ? it was -60k for me :(

66 is the number of those in the list who lost credit

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RIP Lappy.
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How is the new server holding up? We lost January 7 and halfway January 8 the credit was restored to that of January 6 and all WUs processed after January 6 declared overtime - even when they were credited before, suggesting a major database crash.
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Yes, that’s correct.
The server crashed and although I was apparently able to repair the database (on the 7th) something still wasn’t right and one of the logs went haywire, filling up the HDD. Eventually I decided the safest thing was to restore from the 48hr old backup.
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