[MOBY-dev] MOBY Central and the MOBY-DIC meeting

[Lincoln Stein]

I think this is fairly good evidence that MOBY is not "robust" in the face of 
power outages, flooding and other acts of god.  This would *not* have 
happened if we had used a tried and true technology based on papyrus or clay 
tablets.

Lincoln

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:42 pm, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as most of you have noticed by now, MOBY was "beached" by Hurricane
> Juan, that gave Halifax a direct hit with the eye of the storm a couple
> of days ago.  Unfortunately, the public MOBY Central is located in
> Halifax, and according to the news at noon today they are still
> predicting Saturday or later before power is fully restored to Halifax
> city.  We might get lucky, but I think we should plan to have no access
> to MOBY Central during the meeting this weekend.
>
> IF ANYONE HAS A RECENT DUMP OF THE DATABASE can you please let me know
> so that I can set up a local copy in case we desperately need it?  I
> don't see that we will *need* to access the registry during the meeting,
> but it would be nice to have the option (note that we do not have net
> access in the meeting room, so anything we do net-wise would be through
> an ad-hoc wireless network)
>
> Weather, eh?... pretty unpredictable...
>
> Mark

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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