Tarsnap partial outage 07:08 UTC -- ongoing

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi tarsnap users,

Due to an ongoing issue with Amazon S3, Tarsnap is failing a lot of requests
right now.  If you're lucky your backups will complete after lots and lots
of "lost connection, reconnecting in..." messages; if you're unlucky you'll
get too many failures and tarsnap will give up.

As of ten minutes ago (an hour after the outage started) Amazon says they
think they've uncovered the cause and are working on fixing it; I haven't
seen any sign of fixing yet, but hopefully I'll be sending out another email
before long to say that everything is back to normal.  I figured that since
the problems had gone on for an hour already I should send out an email now
rather than waiting until after the outage was over though.

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