Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-09-01 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Ugh. I feel your pain on the RAID failure. We had one fail on our primary ERP server about a month ago when a drive controller bit it. The corruption then propogated to the rest of the array. The machine first locked up then was unbootable. About five hours later the team gave up on the

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/30/19 10:17 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: LiveCodeShare was particularly difficult as it was first created many years ago using an old version of Revolution CGI which is not 64bit compatible. AKA past its expiration date. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-30 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
As every good soldier knows, no battle plan survives the first 10 minutes after enemy contact. :-) Bob S > On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:17 , Heather Laine via use-livecode > wrote: > > Rick...I don't think you quite comprehended the issue. The raid disk failed > on the new server we were

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-30 Thread Heather Laine via use-livecode
Rick...I don't think you quite comprehended the issue. The raid disk failed on the new server we were transferring 500GB of data to, during transfer. Suboptimal. Reverse engines! Start again, lets have a new disk there please... Anyway, that is all done now, and pretty much everything is back

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-29 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
They said they had a RAID that failed that caused a mess. One still has to do backups for any RAID for that reason. Even if they were just using Time Machine to perform a backup of their RAID they only would lose a maximum of one hour’s worth of data. If they were doing transaction logging they

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-29 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Well to be fair, you can always go back to your sent mail folder and resend. I reiterate that if the SMTP relay you use cannot contact another server, it will typically attempt to resend for a period of time. If it fails, your SMTP server *may* alert you to the fact, depending on how it's

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-08-29 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hehe. I feel your pain. Daily. Dang their lack of resources and staff. I am pretty much working entirely with workarounds at the moment to really, really, insanely, inanely basic, stuff. Like keys other than a-Z,0-9 actually functioning! or datagrids going faster than a x386 displaying 8k! I'm

Maintenance forever?

2019-08-29 Thread hh via use-livecode
To do the same things twice or three times is OK if some people have difficulties to do their job. But that's going too far now. After close to a week the "maintenance" people are still exercising only. Many posts are lost in forums and use-list. No upload to livecodeshare is possible. Nearly