[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article <00ACDE95.F32BDBE8 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> Well, my systems didn't boast large uptimes but my cluster incarnation was,
> prior to 10 days in the dark due to Sandy and subsequence freak Nor'easter
> snowstorm, 1998... pre Y2K!  Had it not been that the transformer outside
> my home blew-up on the evening of Sandy's landfall here on the proNJ coast
> taking out my UPS in a literal "blaze-of-glory", I might have kept that 
> incarnation date on going.  Of course, sooner or later, I'd have lost out.
> It was just too difficult to get gas to keep the generator running around
> the clock.

At one place we had lengthy cluster incarnation times as a by product of 
performing rolling reboots.  However I recall one patch which required a 
complete cluster shutdown, because it changed something in internode 
traffic.  The details are hazy now, and I am not necessarily thinking of 
SCS traffic here (Memory Channel or other hardware?) but this was an 
Alpha only cluster; we didn't have any VAXes around by that stage.

-- 
Paul Sture