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A comment on Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021. Parent comment

Re:Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021 by rsync on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:38AM (#30601032)
Not sure what you mean… generally speaking we keep the storage servers up continuously - as you’d expect.

I see several with 80-100 day uptimes right now …

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Re:Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021 by sporkle-feet on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:56AM (#30602214)
Then how do you explain this email sent by yourself?

    We are announcing an extended, off-peak maintenance window for your backup account.

    Beginning Saturday March 5th at 9:00a PT (UTC -8) the server will go offline for approx. 6 hours as we     perform data integrity checks and rebalancing.

    ...
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Re:Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2021 by rsync on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:48AM (#30616684)
That's a single, one-off maintenance planned for Sat. March 5.

That is not a regular, every Saturday maintenance ... perhaps the word "Beginning" made that confusing ?

Let me check with engineering folks and see if they plan on repeating it - but even if they do, it is not a regular maintenance and you should expect your account to have long, uninterrupted uptimes ...

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