For sure I was one of these very unhappy guys (but did not twitter that), because I wanted to fix a very nasty bug in 2.7.0beta4. On the other hand we should not forget what service we get for free from SourceForge.
Obviously it was a very serious crash. All I understood was that they had a problem with their file system. I assume that the problem was on the servers that host their virtual servers so that they lost their whole (virtual) infrastructure. Therefore they had to restore and validate terabytes of data. iSphere was one of the projects with an inconsistent state so that we (Frank and I) had to validate it by hand against our workspaces.
I am pretty sure that crashes like this one can happen to everybody regardless of his backup strategy. Virtualization is good and fancy but when Murphy blows away your hardware server, everything is gone.
Hopefully they can figure out the root cause of the problem in order to strenghten their backup strategy.
Thomas.
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Von: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Scott Johnson
Gesendet: Montag, 17. August 2015 18:44
An: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Betreff: Re: [WDSCI-L] iSphere Update Site
Yep, it is working now.
I kind of thought it was related to that, but it was still not working days later. Guess it took SoureForge that long to get everything up and working again.
I was sort of watching their twitter feed and what not and there were a lot of unhappy people out there during the downtime. I like how they keep their uptime stats high by just having the front page working and nothing else.
Thanks,
Scott Johnson
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tools/400
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 11:04 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] iSphere Update Site
Scott,
Please try again to update iSphere and let me know it it works, now.
Maybe that the problem was related to the SourceForge crash.
It should work, now.
Thomas.
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