[packman] ATT: advanced notice for extended PMBS downtime

[Manfred Hollstein]

Hi Stefan,

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, 22:31:41 +0100, Stefan Botter wrote:
> Hi Packmans,
> 
> I would like to give an advanced notice for an extended downtime of
> Packman's build system PMBS.
> 
> Over the course of upcoming the holidays I will move all my virtual
> machines hosted on the machine to a different hypervisor. This will
> require all VMs shut down and moved, before the new hypervisor can be
> installed and the VMs put back.
> 
> Over the past months I devised a traffic-friendly method for moving the
> approx. 3TB of data, and I am confident, that the move will possible
> without the need of transferring all data off the machine and back on.
> All data is backed up in multiple places, if needed restoring will be
> possible 100%, but it will take a little bit longer.
> Nevertheless I expect a downtime of at least 2 days, and - as my
> personal email system is also among the VMs - I will give priority to
> the systems me and my family depend on. PMBS and the build workers will
> be the first to be shut down, and the last to start up again.
> 
> As of now I do not have an exact time plan, but please expect PMBS down
> during the days of Dec 24th to Dec 30th. 
> I will give a more definitive announcement in the upcoming days, as I
> will prepare things a bit and get a better feeling for the time needed
> on the far machine.
> 
> So far Merry Christmas to you all,
> greetings,
> 
> Stefan

thanks a lot for all your effort here!

A Merry Christmas to you and your family, too!

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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