A maintenance window of our GitLab services has been planned for 2018-01-31 from 12:00 to 13:00 CST in order to update the software. GitLab services provided by gitlab.cels.anl.gov and xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable during maintenance. Service is expected to be restored by 2018-01-31 at 13:00 CST, and may be available sooner than that. If this …

I’ve released the shares, so your Z: and Y: drives should be accessible again. You may need to login/logout before they show up. Note: ** The restore is still progressing. ** The restore is not finished, so if there are files missing, it’s because the restore hasn’t progressed that far yet. If there are particular …

The restore is continuing without incident, yet, transfer from tape is, sadly, not a fast process compared to disk. I don’t expect the restore to complete today. We’re going to keep an eye on it over the weekend, and if it completes before Monday we’ll start up the file sharing service again. Thanks for your …

The targeted restore is moving along much faster than the initial restore, but it’s still slower than we’d like. We have no ETA on completion at the moment, but I hope to have a better idea in the morning after watching the night’s progress.

The restore was progressing much slower than I’d liked, so we stopped it and started a more targeted restore. At the rate it’s currently restoring, I’m optimistic we can have Y and Z back online tomorrow afternoon. I will send an update should this change.

Work to upgrade and migrate our Confluence service at https://collab.cels.anl.gov has been completed.

We will be performing maintenance of the CELS Confluence service, available at https://collab.cels.anl.gov, this evening. Confluence service and access to documentation will be disrupted during this maintenance window; from 17:00 to 20:00 CST, Today, 2018-01-23. Service is expected to be restored by 20:00 CST, and may be available sooner than that. We will send a …

The restore is progressing. At the moment, it’s still restoring directory structure and hasn’t transferred any actual files yet. As such, I can’t calculate an expected ETA. I will say with some confidence it won’t be done today. There are just under 4TB of data to restore, so once I get a good idea of …

Greetings, We got the server into a fairly stable state early this morning, and we don’t anticipate needing to take it down during business hours today. It may be necessary to work on it some more, but if at all possible we will not interrupt service until after hours. Thanks for your patience

Tonight, the disk array providing the Windows homedirs for BIO suffered a catastrophic failure. We have backups of the data and have begun the process of restoring it to a different disk array in the hopes of getting it all up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately until that is complete, the Z drive and Y …