[Contrib: Evaluation System] QA5 Server Updates

[Matthew Jones]

Just as an update: The export is completed, but this qa instance will be
down for at *least* another hour while local admins work to get network
access to the new database setup for this server.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:

> This 'sometime next week' is going to be starting in a half hour this
> morning from 10:00AM-11:30AM EDT. The evaluation QA server (QA5) may be
> unavailable during this time period.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    Sometime next week we will be updating the QA5 server to be running the
>> final Evaluations 1.3 release, and also update the database to Oracle 11g.
>> We'll be migrating the data from the existing Oracle 10g database, but there
>> will be an opportunity for *data loss* between the time we migrate the
>> data and the time we reconfigure the server. This could be avoided if we
>> shut down the server during the migration window, so *please let me know*if you would prefer the server be shutdown (and avoid data loss), or if
>> you'd prefer the server remain up as much as possible (with any data loss
>> being acceptable).
>>
>>    Unless I hear otherwise, I'll assume that as a QA server, it would be
>> preferred to have the QA5 server remain up as much as possible during this
>> migration, even if it risks a small amount of data loss.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Beth
>>
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