12 minute outagelet

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi all,

Just a heads-up: There was a 12 minute outage between 2014-04-06 08:50:07
and 09:02:07 UTC.  I was moving an EC2 instance onto a newer instance type
and I forgot to remove the EC2-ephemeral-disk /tmp from my /etc/fstab file
-- so when I restarted the instance it dropped into single-user mode because
it couldn't mount what was now an empty disk.

It only took a few minutes to stop the instance, detach the boot disk, move
the disk over to a different instance, edit /etc/fstab, move the disk back,
and restart the instance; but it was enough to take me well past the 5 minute
window for Tarsnap reconnection attempts, so it's possible that archives
which were being created during that window will have failed.  (If they did,
you should see error output from tarsnap; if you're running tarsnap from a
cron job you should get an email from cron.)

Sorry about the glitch.  Everything should be back to normal now; but as
usual, please let me know if you see any problems.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid