[okfn-help] [okfn-discuss] OKF server down

[Jonathan Gray]

Many thanks for your offer will! I think that would be very useful!

I've carbon copied this to the okfn-help list to ask Rufus, James and
John how best to proceed...

Best,

Jonathan

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:48 PM, William Waites <wwaites at googlemail.com> wrote:
> If it is at all helpful for the future I probably have enough disc space that we can set up an hourly or daily rsync...
>
> William Waites
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gray
> Sent:  2009/10/29 22:12:51
> Subject:  [okfn-discuss] OKF server down
>
> Dear all,
>
> You may have noticed that some of the OKF's site, lists and services
> have been down in the last day. Unfortunately one of our main servers
> (which included our blog, mailing lists and KnowledgeForge among other
> things) was taken offline last night. We had not received notification
> of this from the host, and they were very unhelpful in giving us
> access to the machine. After some late night wrangling late last night
> and throughout the day today, we've now put many of the services back
> online from backups, and are currently restoring the rest via a full
> image of the server.
>
> We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused to anyone who's been
> unable to access KnowledgeForge during the last 24 hours - and to
> anyone who may have sent any emails to OKF lists. If you sent email to
> the lists and they do not show up in the archives, we'd kindly request
> you to send them again!
>
> Finally - a big thank you to John Bywater, James Casbon and Rufus for
> all their hard work on getting us back online!
>
> If anyone has any questions or concerns, please let us know.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://www.okfn.org
>
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-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org