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NASA Loses Contact With Space Station Over Software Update

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-didn't-know-they-used-itunes dept.

kodiaktau writes "Reports early Tuesday morning say that a software update to the International Space Station caused a communications blackout with Houston control. Remediation of the update has allowed the astronauts limited communication every 90 minutes or so. It is expected that the issue will be resolved today."

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  1. Re:Yep by omglolbah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We do a full image backup of the server.
    Then we shut it down (they're all redundant) and remove one set of drives from the mirrored raid.
    Start back up.
    Run the update.
    Verify that the update went ok
    Perform new image backups.
    When everyone is satisfied shove the mirrored drives back in.

    Then again, we're "offshore" as in an oil rig and patching control system HMI servers... so I guess having a contingency plan would be required. This rig (where I am at now :p) makes 50 million USD a day in natural gas.. so uptime is paramount!