[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Rich Jordan]

On May 10, 6:21 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> On May 10, 1:54 pm, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > This is the best so far at my current site.  This would be longer had
> > we not moved datacenters...
>
> > OpenVMS V7.1-2  on node xxx  10-MAY-2011 13:52:46.60  Uptime  842
> > 20:38:06
>
> > Can anyone beat this?
>
> VAX/VMS V6.1   on node ZZZZ   10-May-2011 18:09:43.10   Uptime  991
> 09:42:37
>
> Boottime = 22-AUG-2008 08:07:46.08
>
> We're cheering for 1000 though that would not be a record for this box
> (close to 1500 days).  They always lose it to a powerfail that
> outlasts the backup power, or once to replace an internal drive.

 VAX/VMS V6.1   on node ZZZZ   13-May-2011 11:49:04.41   Uptime  994
03:21:58

Next Thursday is the next 'big day'.  Unfortunately its spring storm
season, but we're hoping for the best. It has ridden out a couple
outages already that weren't too long.

And a plug:  TMESIS UPShot provides UPS support on this box.  Works
great, potentially saved the data a couple times in the past when
power was out too long.