[ale] uptime

Dave Weiner davew at coyotetechnical.com
Wed Mar 17 14:33:48 EDT 2010


Jim Kinney wrote:
> Dang! Totally forgot to mention the server I helped a friend move hot
> and live to keep his 1000+ day uptime. We opened the box, split open the
> power supply, hot spliced the output from a DC/AC power inverter and 2
> fully charged car batteries into the AC feed lines, parked the hard
> drive heads, pulled the wall plug and secured the now very dangerous
> ends, put the server on the hand truck with the batteries and inverter
> and walked the entire pile 2 blocks through downtown Atlanta to the new
> building and set it all back up in it's new home.
> 
> Of course the building power failed about a month later and it was all
> just exercise in dangerous geekdom as the generators failed to kick in
> for an hour!

Ok, you win Jim!  The most I've ever done to preserve an uptime was to
take a screen shot of it before shutting down the server!!!!

Dave


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