13 Jan
2012
13 Jan
'12
8:20 p.m.
I really don't want to sound impatient or
ungrateful -- I realize Trinity
is
an all-volunteer project to which I don't contribute (although I would if
I
had the skills). I really appreciate all the time and effort that goes
into
Trinity. But I have situations that are becoming critical, and I need to
know how to plan.
I have users I've been putting off for almost 3 weeks now, as well as a
couple machines of my own with problems I can't fix, because the mirrors
are
down. Every day I tell them it's still not working, but it should be "any
time now."
Surely someone (Tim?) has some idea how much longer it's likely to be?
All
it takes is the upload bandwidth, the amount of data still to transfer,
and
some basic math to get a good estimate. Is it going to be another hour, a
day, a week, 3 more weeks? If I can't at least find out very soon, I'm
going to have to give up on Trinity and commit to another direction.
I sincerely apologize for the difficulties that you are experiencing. As
a result of the recent donations by certain individuals, I have been able
to send a hard disk with the entire TDE archive contents to the new
primary mirror. When he receives this disk he will publish its contents
to the mirror, at which point full service will be restored.
I will post back with an estimated delay as soon as I have this information.
Once again I apologize for the delays; please remember that TDE is a
volunteer-based project that also relies on support both financially and
via donated mirror bandwidth. We were not informed of the impending
mirror failure until AFTER the mirror was taken offline, forcing a full
reload of ~130GB of data to the new mirror system. That is a lot of data
by U.S. Internet standards.
Tim