Power outage
We’ve been warned that yesterday, between 8:00 and 11:00, there would be a power outage, because some maintenance was scheduled on the power grid.
Because my job brings me too far away to easily handle ths situation, I shut down all systems before leaving home, intending to restore services when I got back. So it was one day where all Internet access to and from my home was – deliberately – impossible.
Functionality ceased just before 7:00, all hardware not just shut down but also powered off. It is something of a gamble because you never know if the drives start to spin (they are of a reasonable age…) and wethter the battery of NVRAM and TOY clock have sufficient energy to keep these subsystems warm. But it would shut down anyway, and I considered it a good idea to have control over both shutdown and restore.
But it proved to be no problem at all. Just before 19:00 I repowered the disks and all stated spinning. Next I switched the DS10 back to life and booted. Ans as was to be expected, nothing went wrong; The system was up and running within a few minutes, and started reading in email that had been delivered during the day (and was stored at my ISP’s backup server).
One thing I found today: the text on the homepage was not restored; that was taken care of right away.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center