OSGrid back up & running !

IT'S BACK ! LOGINS ENABLED

Read all about it here. Off to LBSA now... :D

Quick update :
All of Red Dragons 20 regions successfully started nice and smooth without problems. Apart from some estate settings ( teleport "blocked" instead of "anywhere", some pictures, and media url's ) all looks exactly like i left it :). That means 20 regions dated from the last version installed in august, with over 150.000 prims and 3000 scripts just booted, without any hassle, loading OAR's, or re configuring anything.  I only cleaned my viewer cache, as some DNS names didn't resolve properly due to old cached names. All is as it was. Nothing broken.

Big compliments to all admins & people involved in getting my favorite grid back online !

Cornflakes Week

I know, i promised to not bother you with new posts until the OSgrid is booted up again, and it's not there yet. But this week is "Cornflakes Week" !  (No clue what that is ? You can read all about it HERE). More links to the various events that are organised can be found below.

Since i was also requested to organize an event, i asked my friends at D&J to do a "Mad Friday Party" at Close encounter. This as the Red Dragon is currently hosted on  my home server in Metro, and it just can't handle a lot of concurrent visitors, my viewer, and a decent stream at the same time.

D&J graciously accepted and thus the party will be held at Close encounter region in Metropolis grid on Friday 27th of February. We start at 19.00 GMT (1,5 hour earlier than the "normal" friday event). Your hostess for the evening will be Dorothea, and DJ's JayMaze, LadyJo and yours truly will form the lineup for the evening. It will be a themed party, with "Colorful / Silly" as your requested "dresscode". Also you are obliged to have Fun, and the last one leaving helps cleaning up....

Some links to an overview of all events this week :
G+ Event Listings
Event page on Facebook 

A CornFlakes Tribute Region is hosted on Metro; here's the HG link to it : hypergrid.org:8002:Cornflakes-Tribute , should you be interested in the works & creations of Cornflakes, or if you've never heard of that clown before. It's worth a visit. Special thanks go to Thirza Ember who took the initiative in organizing this week of madness and dedicating it to CW.

Latest News on OSgrid

I was secretly hoping the OSgrid would be booted up again after the update of today, or that at least an ETA would be posted. This as in 2 weeks the grid will have been down for 6 months. Read all about why this will not be the case on  : http://news.osgrid.org/

More patience. We will just have to wait a little longer, but as some famous hobbit once stated : “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” It pretty much nails the feeling i have with more patience.  Mind i'm happy with the updates, despite them not telling me what i'd like to hear. If these updates weren't posted weekly, i think for many hope would have been lost, and the less stubborn would have moved along. The good news is, that likely all our assets are still there when we get back.

--deleted long rant about waiting-- Well, now that's out of the way, I will only update this Blog again when either an ETA is known, or OSGrid is back.  Until than, Mr. Patience to the left in the pic here will have to keep you entertained.

Fingers crossed

Source : http://news.osgrid.org/

DRIVE RECOVERY STATUS
The recovered drive has been shipped from the recovery service to the data center.
No ETA yet on when the data center will receive the recovered drive or have it online for us.

ASSET SERVER STATUS
Both new asset servers have successfully passed the first tests hosting OSgrid regions.
Lbsa Plaza and Sandbox Plaza 2 successfully connected to the new asset servers.
OARs were loaded successfully, and assets replicated to both asset servers as expected.
Dan Banner and Allen Kerensky were both able to login to the regions, configure their basic avatars, then hypergrid out to other servers successfully and hypergrid from other servers into the new OSG regions successfully.

OSGRID RESTART
OSgrid restart is getting closer but there is still no specific date or ETA as we test this entirely new asset service. Once the current testing rounds of failover, failback, and backup/restore are complete to all admins’ satisfaction including finalized checklists and documentation, we may be able to offer a tentative ETA for restoring service.

Things are looking more positive, and hopefully we can soon go "home". Despite the no ETA this is positive news. Now it's fingers crossed, and hope the data on the drives is usable.