[HECnet] A2RTR downtime

Funny you should send this; I had just been thinking about a few things: *First*, when you bring everything back online, this is what I am currently seeing: @i dec ?Local DECNET node: TOMMYT.? Nodes reachable: 15. ?Accessible DECNET nodes are:?? A2RTR?? APOLLO? BOINGO? DOGPAK ELITE?? GLDRTR? GRUNT ?HUNTER HUSKY?? JACKAL? ODST??? OSIRIS? THEPIT? TOMMYT? VENTI2 NCP>shoW acTIVE nODES NCP> 14:48:02 ??? NCP Request # 1449; Show Active Nodes Summary Completed ????? Node?????? State?????? Active? Delay Circuit?????? Next node ???????????????????????????? links ? 2.291????????? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.292 (OSIRIS) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.293 (ODST)?? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.294 (HUNTER) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.295 (JACKAL) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.296 (ELITE)? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.297 (GRUNT)? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.299 (THEPIT) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.399 (BOINGO) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.400 (APOLLO) Reachable????? 0?????? 1?? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.520 (TOMMYT) On 0 ? Identification = Tommy Timesharing ? 2.522 (VENTI2) Reachable????? 0?????? 1 NI-0-0?????? 2.522 (VENTI2) ? 2.609 (HUSKY)? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.622 (DOGPAK) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ? 2.699 (GLDRTR) Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) ?2.1023 (A2RTR)? Reachable????????????????? NI-0-0 2.1023 (A2RTR) *Second* is VENTI; I had wanted to test something on it and it doesn't appear to be online. *Third* is the DECnet-10 COM911 drop dead date of November 9^th is now about three weeks away (23 days).? This will crash VENTI if it is up and force you to enter a bogus date and hope it's not pulling the right date from anything.? That can happen on a KL, but I don't know about a KS. I posted a patch to work around the issue and make Tops-10 act like OpenVMS in this regard on December 28^th of last year.? Had you had any interest in trying it? In D36COM.MAC at NMXTIM+9,? change the following two lines (which skip or fall into the COM911 BUGHLT), ??????? SKIPL T2??????????????? ;MAKE SURE WE HAVE A POSITIVE NUMBER OF SECONDS ??????? TDNE T1,[XWD -1,600000] ;MAKE SURE NO DATE OVERFLOW to ??????? SKIPGE T2?????????????? ;Do WE HAVE A POSITIVE NUMBER OF SECONDS? ???????? MOVMS T2?????????????? ; No.? Fine, now we're plenty positive ??????? TDZA T1,[XWD -1,600000] ;MAKE SURE never any DATE OVERFLOW ever *Fourth* (and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way.? My Tops-20 systems are backed up on a quarterly basis and those backups compressed and moved to alternate storage.? However, I have never backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD media, some of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel uncomfortable out it. Were you aware of any winning backup solutions?? I can restore Tops-20 to bare metal, but I really don't remember how to do this for Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at one point). So I starting looking.? D?j? Dup looks like it won't quite do what I need, but since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that. Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup.? This was probably more true in the days where a hardware RAID controller error introduced a single point of failure; it may still be true for a software RAID.