[Info-vax] Asking for input

[Bob Koehler]

In article <teqdnVrLlNh4AubXnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Even if you have electric power and air conditioning available at all 
> times, there are things like hardware maintenance that usually require a 
> shutdown.  Standalone backup will have the machine effectively down.

   We did routine hardware maintenance on all of our 11/780 and
   DECSYSTEM 20xx systems.

   I have not seen any routine hardware maintenance since our first
   MicroVAX II.

   Generally my systems only went down for power outages (couldn't
   justify a large UPS) since the early 1990's when we stopped
   subscribing to software updates.

   I think a few times (much less than once a year) I had to reboot for 
   IP stack security updates, which Process (Multinet) provided to everyone.