Due to the earlier announcement posted on the maintenance we're going to have a lot of downtime this week. I'm trying to plan most things around the nights, except for Wednesday, then I'll be in the DC during daytime.

The schedule is going to be something along the lines of this, give or take a few hours;

Monday night 23:59
- Shutdown MrWhite VM guest, all websites, irc, mumble etc. services will be down during this time. The gameservers will remain up and running, however without admin support or stats tracking. Expected end of downtime, Tuesday 10:00. During this downtime we'll perform a test backup of the MrWhite virtual machine guests.

Tuesday night 23:59
- On Tuesday the test backup will get locally tested to see if everything restores as it should. This test is being performed locally, so no downtime for this.
- At night, if the backups test out to be OK, MrWhite and MrGreen will get shut down and we'll create the real backups. All services named above will be down, including Minecraft, Terarria and spa mail.

Wednesday
- On Wednesday we'll be in the datacenter re-installing VMware on MrWhite, and removing its RAID setup to improve VM performances. Most of the time will be spend waiting on the VM restores (both 100GB large). During this time MrBlonde (All TF2/L4D2 servers) will be taken down. We're going to try (again) to fix the memory issues with that machine. Expected is that we'll be fully back online somewhere during Wednesday afternoon.

Go-go-Gadgetto-Breaker!

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Last nights backup & test restore went very smooth. I might go into the datacenter later today already to perform the maintenance.

Keep an eye on our twitter in case the website is down.

MrBlonde & MrWhite are back up and looking good.

We managed to fix the memory issues with MrBlonde, it now has it's full 8GB again without any errors.

MrGreen will get recovered tomorrow morning, it became too late to still stay in the DC and be able to drive back with my eyes opened.

I dont know the names of the servers yet, but MC is still down, cant connect.

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“If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system, to help just one woman, man or child…I’m willing to accept the consequences.” -Wonder Woman #170

Correct, MC and Terarria are hosted off MrGreen.

I'll be in the datacenter tomorrow around 11.00 in the morning. I'll need the network port which connects MrWhite to the internet, so from 11.00 till 13.00 ish MrWhite will be down. Internally however MrWhite will still be reachable, so spapoints, admin access and TF2 stats tracking will remain active.

WAH WAH WAH WHINE WHINE and no cheese to go with it! I am in WITHDRAWALS!!!

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“If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system, to help just one woman, man or child…I’m willing to accept the consequences.” -Wonder Woman #170

Maintenance is completed, everything should be back online!