[Python-Dev] www/svn python.org status update

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 21:12, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:22, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
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>> The following sites are up again on a new machine, but cannot be
>> updated through SVN hooks or whatever mechanism:
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>> www.python.org
>> docs.python.org
>> www.jython.org
>> planet.python.org
>> planet.jython.org
>>
>> svn.python.org was deliberately not brought up again.  The backups
>> were a few hours behind and missing the ~10 most recent commits.  Not
>> disastrous, but it could probably mess up people's SVN trees, so after
>> some IRC discussion, the decision was to wait until the original disks
>> are available again.  That will probably not occur until Monday, maybe
>> Tuesday.
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> I'm still waiting on a replacement controller, so it wasn't to be today.
> Hopefully tomorrow, if the hardware supplier has one in stock. Still no
> news on whether we have any chance at all on getting the old data back.
>
>

The new card had to be ordered (and I couldn't find any other place that had
them in stock) bit it should arrive tomorrow or thursday. On the plus side,
Martin found out there should be no problem with just inserting the card and
having it detect the RAID, so as long as the dying card didn't write garbage
to the disks we should be back up and running quite fast.

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