As mentioned earlier on the BALUG-Admin list https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin/2017-September/000910.html we're anticipating a scheduled sites outage tomorrow, sometime between 9:00 AM and approximately 3:00 PM. PDT.
details/references: outage window: >=2017-09-26T09:00:00-0700-->~=2017-09-26T15:00:00-0700 reason: scheduled utility power outage site(s): balug.org - everything on/under that domain sf-lug.{org,com} - everything on/under those domains (does NOT include SF-LUG lists (hosted on linuxmafia.com)) mitigations/controls: Don't have operational UPS presently (even if I did, it probably wouldn't suffice for potential duration of outage). The impacted sites mentioned above are on virtual machine. Prior to outage, I'll (live) migrate that virtual machine onto physical machine that should be able to restart okay after drop of and restoration of power, and likewise virtual machine thereupon should automatically be restarted and recover fine too. With journaling filesystems and such, hopefully this will limit the outage to not much longer than the utility power outage itself. Even in "worst case", I expect sometime tomorrow after 3pm, should some manual intervention be needed, to have the sites up later in that day - I'll also have fresh image on another machine that won't be powering up/down with the utility power, so in all cases, the sites either will come back up, or I'll be able to bring it back up without too much difficulty.
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From: "Michael Paoli" Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu To: BALUG-Admin balug-admin@temp.balug.org Subject: scheduled sites outage: [*.]balug.org, [*.]sf-lug.org, ...
=2017-09-26T09-0700-->~=2017-09-26T15-0700
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:36:09 -0700
There's upcoming scheduled sites outage due to some scheduled electric utility work.
Scheduled outage window:
=2017-09-26T09:00:00-0700-->~=2017-09-26T15:00:00-0700
sites impacted: [*.]balug.org (note that it may or may not impact www.balug.org and balug.org - depending where they are at that time, but will impact at least all other *.balug.org sites/domains)
[*.]sf-lug.{org,com} (note that SF-LUG list isn't impacted)
To the extent feasible, I'll try to minimize the outage time, but expect it may minimally be up to fair part of an hour, and "worst case" might be 6 hours or more (notably also if I can have things automagically recover easily enough unattended upon power restoration - or not).
It's also possible this outage may be delayed or rescheduled (notably depending what electric utility provider gets up to).