Status OSgrid

The following exempt was captured from IRC  on October. 15th

< leTwitch> The news is, there really isn't much new to tell. Three different organizations spread geographically all over Texas are all struggling with a broken raid volume. We get two steps forward and one back; be patient. There really isn't a good way to give an eta on work like this; once we can certify that we have the volume back in a readable form, then we can start pinning down certain tasks and registering progress. Even then, ETA's will be just that *estimated* time to arrival.

< leTwitch>  The real showstopper at this juncture is that the data recovery folks can see the data, but when they ship it to the data-center and we get it hooked up to the server, we cant. So right now what’s happening is a straight up dump of the paths and directories to a big volume (single partition). The last thing that didn't work for us was a set of partition copies. The thing we’re doing now is the last trick up the sleeve of the engineer doing the data recovery; if this doesn't work, we’ll be left with nothing more to do than rebuild the server and start rebuilding from archives. My understanding is, we don't pay anything if they don't get our stuff back, so if that's how it winds up, we’ll be talking with them about getting back what we have already paid them.

< leTwitch> so if nothing else, the end of the waiting will soon come to pass.

< leTwitch> we’ll be moving forward one way or another.

< leTwitch> Heh, I guess that is news of a sort.

< leTwitch> o/

source : http://news.osgrid.org/ 

For those of you that don't understand the technical stuff, there working hard on getting OSGrids data fixed. 2 previous attempts to recover the  data have (partially) failed, and now there is a last try. If that fails, they will be left with no other options than to start restoring the grid from archives. But, it isn't over unless the data-recovery dudes give up... (And, would you walk away of $ 5000,- and your firms reputation easily ? I guess the data-recovery people think the same.) 

So keep fingers your fingers crossed, and be patient. OSG will not be back next weekend though. If you moved your stuff to metro for the time being, please read the topic below. 

If you want to keep up to speed with every update, check this forum topic maintained by Lani Global. Oh, and on forums, don't feed the trolls please....  

Grid Donations, help needed.

OSgrid spent most of its resources getting all data back after the grid crashed, so continued donations are really required to get & keep the grid back up on it's feet. You can hit the banner on the right column, to help out our favorite grid. Much appreciated.

Meanwhile me, and a lot of the OSgrid residents are sheltering in Metropolis grid. I already had my inventory there, but according to this topic on their news pages, there having a hard time coping with all the new data, and are severely lacking of funds to keep it operational. (Severe, as in less than  $ 100,- in active funds ).

Hence i opened paypal, and dropped €5,- in their donation box. I hope some of you OSG residents out there can spare €5,- bux to do the same. Metro has the courtesy to provide us with a safe haven now our favorite grid is down, the least we can do is help them cope with the costs of our "visit". Over 600 residents made an account there since OSG went down,  so if even half would make even a one time donation, they would be without headaches at least till OSG is back up.
You can donate for Metro by clicking here .

Camping in other grids

we are legion

As i started to miss my prims, i decided to upload the X build of Red Dragon to Metropolis Grid for the time being. I'm confident OSgrid will be back, but this will take days at least, more likely weeks. Bless the OAR functions, and a diskcrash teaching me to make regular backups.
For status updates on OSG you can either follow G+,  the OSgrids news page, twitter, Facebook, IRC or the good old OSG Forum.

A donation banner has been posted permanently in the right column of this Blog. Great initiative started by 3D Rock grid and with a banner kindly provided by Maria Korolov. (click if you want one for your webby / blog or region as well).  Much of the OSG residents are refugee in metropolis for now, and its great to see the opensim based grids stand united with the outage of OSG. At least now we don't have to miss out on the party's, and it's always nice to make new friends, and meet up with long "lost" ones.

If you want to party or visit other events in upcoming week(s) check the following links:
hyperica
metropolis
littlefield

When OSgrid is back up, I think it will be time for Red Dragon build XI. More on that later. The troubleshooting document for region setup has been updated, and can be found on the help page.

Grid Down

Normally i don't have a chance to write about OSGrid being down, as by the time i press publish all is mostly running again. However, there is a severe outage ( the raid of the asset server went FUBAR ) and this takes a huge chunk of time to fix. OSG has been down for several days now, and there is no ETA ( estimated time of Arrival ) for the fix. This is the longest OSG downtime i have ever experienced in the past 4 years, so i'm quite sure things have broken pretty badly. The best way for you to help fixing things can be found here . Not that it will make things go faster, but you now at least know whats missing in life if you cant login to your beloved home, and i assume most people will agree that the volunteers of OSgrid can use more coffee and pizza whilst fixing things in their free time....

Wrong pic

So no party at OSG  today, but luckily there are tons of other grids with activities. If you feel an urge to party as well, you can consider to try http://lostworld-os.com:8002/wifi/ which has a beach party and some other events today.

Probably more grids will host activities, so you don't need to feel lost without your pixels. Let's hope were welcome to partycrash at the other  grids in the metaverse.
As i rarely use hypergrid it will likely be a royal PITA to find my way around, but were going to at least give it a shot. After all, the show party must go on.

The last OSgrid update i saw on twitter this morning doesn't look very promising, as they are now trying to rent a Voodoo Man to get things operational again. (I assume the rebuild failed).
Update: We have recruited outside help to obtain an estimate for recovery time and cost, we will provide more info as soon as we get it.