Re: Well, my VAX won't make a year of uptime after all

From: Paul Sture (nospam_at_sture.homeip.net)
Date: 09/11/04


Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:06:56 +0200

healyzh@aracnet.com wrote:
> John Smith <a@nonymous.com> wrote:
>
>>We had a VS4000/60 a long while ago acting as a dedicated db server. It was
>>up continuously for about 3 years. It was connected to a UPS.
>
>
> It's been my experience over the last few years that having an UPS would
> have allowed me to keep my PWS 433au up for considerably longer than I have.
> That is with the exception of this last year when we've had a couple of long
> power outages (and a self induced stability problem). One of these years
> I'll break down and get an UPS or three, but at the moment, I simply don't
> have the room :^(
>

Patches which require a reboot are the real killer for my uptime.



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