Re: fd.o services outage, annarchy $HOME lost

2009-10-07 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Sep 30, 09 15:34:47 -0700, Daniel Stone wrote: Again, please accept our apologies. The decision was made a long time ago to not back up $HOME, and it was mentioned a few times, but I don't have any issues about $HOME not being backed up (besides I didn't know that, but again, it's a free

Re: fd.o services outage, annarchy $HOME lost

2009-10-07 Thread Keith Packard
Excerpts from Matthias Hopf's message of Wed Oct 07 08:12:28 -0700 2009: But I would like to know the reasoning behind that. Is /home notoriously flooded with short-living big-sized files, or has this something to do with local law, or what? It's just to reduce the size of our backup images

fd.o services outage, annarchy $HOME lost

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi all, Cutting and pasting from my blog entry[0] because I'm lazy: As ajax quite elegantly summed up[1], due to a series of catastrophic power failures at PSU, where fd.o is hosted, we were down for a good chunk of yesterday. Despite the machines having redundant power supplies, being