Hi Stefan, On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, 22:31:41 +0100, Stefan Botter wrote: > Hi Packmans, > > I would like to give an advanced notice for an extended downtime of > Packman's build system PMBS. > > Over the course of upcoming the holidays I will move all my virtual > machines hosted on the machine to a different hypervisor. This will > require all VMs shut down and moved, before the new hypervisor can be > installed and the VMs put back. > > Over the past months I devised a traffic-friendly method for moving the > approx. 3TB of data, and I am confident, that the move will possible > without the need of transferring all data off the machine and back on. > All data is backed up in multiple places, if needed restoring will be > possible 100%, but it will take a little bit longer. > Nevertheless I expect a downtime of at least 2 days, and - as my > personal email system is also among the VMs - I will give priority to > the systems me and my family depend on. PMBS and the build workers will > be the first to be shut down, and the last to start up again. > > As of now I do not have an exact time plan, but please expect PMBS down > during the days of Dec 24th to Dec 30th. > I will give a more definitive announcement in the upcoming days, as I > will prepare things a bit and get a better feeling for the time needed > on the far machine. > > So far Merry Christmas to you all, > greetings, > > Stefan
thanks a lot for all your effort here! A Merry Christmas to you and your family, too! Cheers. l8er manfred
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