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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)
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  		   Posted 10/16/2009 3:27 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
One thing I've learned from using search.parallax.com lately is this: if you don't get any results, try the exact same search over again. It's as if you have to tell it, "Okay, I really mean it this time!" This seems to be recently acquired behavior. 'Anyone know why it's doing this?

Thanks,
-Phil

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  		   Posted 10/16/2009 3:33 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The miniGoogle search engine should be returning consistant, if abbreviated, results. I am seeing an increasing number of crawling failures with the appliance. It hasn't been booted for over a year, so let me try that and see if we get different results - but consistant responses.

Jim

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  		   Posted 10/27/2009 10:55 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Now I get no results on the search site at all. And if I retry the search, I get a "Server Error" message.

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  		   Posted 10/28/2009 7:08 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Looking for the Google Search Appliance? You're getting warmer...

Misplaced servers.. I hate it when that happens.. :)

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  		   Posted 10/28/2009 10:14 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I've been getting warmer for a week, by now I should be on fire, but someone keeps pouring water on it.

Jim, did you reboot?

Jim
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Jim Ewald (Parallax)
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  		   Posted 10/28/2009 10:20 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I haven't rebooted in years. The server at search.parallax.com hasn't been rebooted in 18 months. Windows server get rebooted far more often.

Jim

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  		   Posted 10/29/2009 12:16 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
But you said you where going to try that in the second post.
Jim

Jim Ewald (Parallax) said...
I haven't rebooted in years. The server at search.parallax.com hasn't been rebooted in 18 months. Windows server get rebooted far more often.
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  		   Posted 11/1/2009 8:58 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In a pinch the "Cached" button on the search results "seems" to work.

This is a disappointing look at Google hardware, I would expect better from something they created.

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  		   Posted 11/1/2009 4:36 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, rebooting the appliance actually requires a visit to the front panel of the machine. It cannot be done remotely. I will add that to my list when I rotate backup tapes later this week. Thanks for the reminder.

Jim

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  		   Posted 11/1/2009 6:07 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Jim Ewald said...
I will add that to my list when I rotate backup tapes later this week.


Tapes? That scares me more than a server failure...
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  		   Posted 11/1/2009 7:45 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
LOL... Yeah, we still use backup tapes, just in case plan A and B both hit a wall. They are the foundation of our worst-case MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) scenario.

Jim

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  		   Posted 11/3/2009 9:19 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
What's wrong with tapes? DAT is still in common use...

Generally, purchase of a reliable drive and regular replacement of tapes (if on rotation backup) works fine.

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  		   Posted 11/3/2009 10:20 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Until my drive recently failed I used ZIP disks (ioMega) for my most important backups. It's only now that the cost of the ZIP750 drive is prohibitive when I can buy a 1TB external USB HD for the same price.

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