309 days uptime

[skyking]

Time to fire up the compressor and blow the dust out of my mini-server
Last night we had a squall line of thunderstorms blow through about midnight. It was louder than any storm we've heard before, and it took out the power and littered the yard with 'northwest salad' from our trees. I had a hunch it would be out longer than the UPS was going to run so I shut it all down. Power was back about 4.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

As far as I know my house is still without power. My sister says it's been out since about 1am and it won't be restored until 10am PST.

At least it isn't snow.

 

[skyking]

And the basement is not flooded.....

 

[ultimatebob]

Only 309 days? Rookie! I had some IBM AIX boxes at an old job that went for a year and a half before I had to reboot them for a kernel patch.

Practically everything on those suckers was redundant and hot swappable.

 

[Thump553]

I'm impressed that you went 309 days without a major power outage at your home. Here in New England 60-120 days is more like the norm.

 

[skyking]

we are lucky that way. My UPS has carried several smaller outages but I had a hunch it would not make this one. I was right. it is a 1500 smartUPS and this box only pulls 25 watts, but the UPS has too much overhead with a fan and other crap.
One of these days I will get a deep cycle battery and just hook it up to that and a trickle charger. That is the nice part about this commell VIA mini-ITX, it runs on 12VDC.

Only 309 days? Rookie! I had some IBM AIX boxes at an old job that went for a year and a half before I had to reboot them for a kernel patch.

Practically everything on those suckers was redundant and hot swappable.

the longest one has been 443 days. I had to move one to another building and the UPS battery was weak, or I would have loaded it on a cart live and rolled it over to the new locations for shitz and giggles. Good thing I did not, it was a filthy location and the server was loaded.

 

[manlymatt83]

My longest is 1642 days. Literally. Old internal box at my college that was running FreeBSD 4.11 and we never patched it until it was taken out of service.

 

[krylon]

Current uptime of router
8mo 9d 11h 53m 27s

 

[MotF Bane]

I'm impressed that you went 309 days without a major power outage at your home. Here in New England 60-120 days is more like the norm.

This. My server is at about, oh, four days since the last power outage.

 

[Rhoxed]

This. My server is at about, oh, four days since the last power outage.

we get a power blip every week or so that causes a hard reset on just about everything.

 

[skyking]

we get a power blip every week or so that causes a hard reset on just about everything.

No UPS? Mine clickety clicks periodically. Sometimes you see the lights flicker, other times not.

 

[Brovane]

309 days isn't bad at all for a home system that is just sitting on UPS power.

The longest that I did see was a ESX 2.5 box that was up for over 3-years before it needed to be patched and rebooted to support MS Server 2003.

That being said. If you are really maintaing your systems you should be rebooting them periodically for patches etc. Our V-Sphere servers are usually patched and updated every couple of months. However the overall ESX Cluster never has had any unplanned downtime because individual hosts can be rebooted without affecting uptime of the guests. Even or EMC SAN's need to have flare code updated every couple of years. However since it is done one SP at a time there isn't any unplanned downtime.