Backups Archives - Fire And Ice Grid Blog

Grid backups and oar files

Posted on May 1, 2020
/Under Backups, IAR, OAR
/With 4 Comments

How many times has the OpenSim community found out too late that their grid has no backups or that their operator doesn't have the skill to deploy them? Something goes wrong, and the grid closes, leaving customers with nothing. Events like this should never be; unfortunately, the opposite has been…continue reading →

Opensim version upgrade completed.

Posted on February 2, 2020
/Under Backups, opensim, Testing
/With 1 Comment

The Fire And Ice Grid are pleased to announce we have completed our opensim version upgrade. The opensim version upgrade to 0.911 forms part of our ongoing commitment to keep up with opensimulator developments. As with all our opensim version upgrades, a full backup (independent of our regular daily backups)…continue reading →

Scheduled Down Time

Posted on January 29, 2020
/Under Backups, Maintenance, opensim, Testing
/With 0 Comments

This coming Sunday (2nd Feb) around noon GMT (4am pst or 01:00 CET) I will be upgrading us from OS 0.910 to 0.911 If all goes to plan this should take no more than 30 mins. If it doesn't go to plan and I have to start restoring things to…continue reading →

Fire And Ice Grid Backups & OAR’s

Posted on December 31, 2019
/Under Backups, IAR, OAR, opensim, Security
/With 1 Comment

This post is now out of date and has been superseded here. For our customer's security, a backup of the main asset database is taken each day. This is done to a machine held in a totally separate data centre to the one where the main server is. From there,…continue reading →