[ibiblio-announce] ibiblio e-mail and login outage, Saturday December 1st

Don Sizemore dls at metalab.unc.edu
Tue Nov 27 10:45:13 EST 2007


   Hello everyone,

   We will be taking down mail.ibiblio.org and login.ibiblio.org for a few 
hours this coming Saturday, December 1st in order to synchronize the 
ibiblio user home directories onto our new Netapp filer.

   We will begin at 9:00 a.m. EST and our mail and login services will be 
down long enough to do a final synchronisation - which may take a couple 
of hours.  During this time, you will not be able to check your ibiblio 
e-mail account or access login.ibiblio.org.

   Our transition onto the new Netapp will help alleviate the performance 
bottleneck we encounter at peak times as our servers wait on the primary 
Netapp's disks.

   Our Web, FTP, rsync, BitTorrent and other services will not be affected 
by this outage - we're taking down mail and login to prevent any 
filesystem modifications during the transition.

   If the timing of this outage poses an insurmountable difficulty to you 
for any reason, please do let us know via http://www.ibiblio.org/help and 
we'll work something out.

   thank you,					919.962.5646 w
   donald sizemore, ii				919.260.4915 c
   ibiblio.org systems				919.962.8071 f


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