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News from the staff team¶
Planned Outage: All OCF Services, August 14
All OCF services will be unavailable on Wednesday, August 14, due to a planned electrical shutdown in the MLK Student Union building.
While the electrical shutdown does not affect the campus data center, the availability of the OCF Software Mirror service. The OCF HPC service will be unavailable during the outage.
Planned Outage: OCF Mirrors, Aug. 11
Due to a scheduled power outage at the UC Berkeley Earl Warren Data Center, OCF Mirrors (https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu) will be unavailable starting 4 AM PDT, Sunday Aug. 11.
The server is expected to be online by 7 PM PDT, Sunday Aug. 11.
OCF Mirrors Down, Feb 8 ~11AM - Feb 10 9PM
Update (2/10 9PM PST) - OCF Mirrors Service is up again, and we are currently syncing from upstreams. OCF Internal APT repos remain unavailable at this moment.
The OCF Mirrors Service went down due to a campus datacenter power outage. When power was resumed, the server encountered a disk error on the boot disk.
ETA of recovery currently unknown as a full OS rebuild seems to be needed.
~rjz
Mirrors maintenance, 1/18 23:00 PST
We'll be running some maintenance tasks on the mirrors server (https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu) at 23:00 PST today, 1/18.
The projected maintenance window is 20 minutes.
Urgent Maintence Downtime
tl;dr; The entire OCF will be offline for at least 24 hours.
We have discovered that several of the drives in our main storage array are experiencing a firmware bug that may lead to data loss. We are focusing on minimizing the impact of this issue and as a result we have decided to take the entire OCF offline for at least 24 hours until we can get replacement drives. We will be posting updates about the downtime to this blog, so keep an eye out.
2022-09-11 3:08PM: OCF goes offline
Multiple mirrors out of date
We noticed that multiple OCF mirror archives were out of date due to exhausted boot disk space on the mirrors server.
Affected archives include (this is not an exhaustive list):
Debian
Debian-security
Puppetlabs
Ubuntu
Ubuntu-ports
Kali
The last update of the affected archives was on Aug 13. Sync is running but might take a while.
We sincerely apologize for this. We will take steps to ensure that system monitoring alerts are handled in a timely manner.
Fedora out of sync
I noticed that our Fedora mirror was out of sync due to a slow upstream mirror. Working on it.
Update: Switched to another upstream mirror. Sync speeds are higher now.
[RESOLVED] Raspbian out of sync
We noticed that our Raspbian mirror is out of sync, likely due to the IP address change.
10:16 PM - We have temporarily switched our upstream for the Raspbian mirror, and it's currently syncing. Emailed Raspbian. - rjz
5/13 - Resolved.
Emergency mirrors server maintenance today
The OCF mirrors server will be down for about an hour staring 1300 PDT today due to a required move within the rack and IPv6 provisioning. We apologize for the inconvenience.