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Impressive uptime. Sidenote: I used to take pride with these kinds of uptime. I now see it as a significant risk. If I take over a machine with an uptime of mo

Impressive uptime. Sidenote: I used to take pride with these kinds of uptime. I now see it as a significant risk. If I take over a machine with an uptime of more than a month, I assume that the machine cannot survive a reboot. Which means I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to deploy that server with all the data it needs. These days there’s likely deployment systems in place that prevent some of the horrors I’ve seen, but there was a time in the not to distant past when you had to assume someone ssh’d into a box at least once a quarter to muck with something. If they didn’t reboot, there was no guarantee the changes they made would survive.

Borg3 3y ago
Well, it depends on model how you manage servers. Cattle vs Pets. And of course true for takeover, thats nightmare whatever it have uptime or not ;) I have just several servers here and there so their are all pets to me. Im 99% sure, server would boot cleanly. The remaining 1% is HW failure, with, can happen. Example: I have a software FW running on some older HW here w/ 2 disks in Soft RAID 1. I had to power it down for 2 days due to electric maintenance in building. What a suprise was booting it. One disk failed right away making creepy noise. Other was ok, but server was booting long, so I hooked up monitor to check things out. Well, second disk was NOT in good condition either, it started to spit I/O errors here and there. Anyway. I managed to boot FW to working state, but immediatly got spare HW and started preparing for replacement. Now it runs 3 disks in Soft RAID 1 :)