I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were hatchlings. At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and powered up at 7am on Monday! Can you imagine that these days?
We soon went to 24x7, but the reason was not because the users wanted it. It was because the engineers and systems programmers wanted time with no users.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 10/29/2014 4:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Yes, indeed. Those are blasted Unix sysadmins (Hm, I flatter myself by thinking of being one too) that push themselves into being too responsible to their users... No, I don't think Unix admins will start into the direction of Windows world, sorry. I don't even like Windows world mentioned as an example for Unix world! (Don't take me too literally, everybody welcomes good things "other worlds" have...)
in my enterprise world, production systems are fully redundant, and have staging servers running identical software configurations. all upgrades and upgrade procedures are tested on staging before being deployed in production. quite often, the staging systems double as the Disaster Recovery systems, but thats another story. virtually all production systems either have a schedulable downtime (2am sunday morning?), or support rolling upgrades with no downtime (such as our 24/7 factory operations where downtime == no product).
personally, I'm very glad I work in development, where our informal SLA is more like 9-9 5 days/week (developers like to work late).
-- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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