Tonight when the date changes to August 18th Pacific Time, we will be doing another round of reboots.  Depending upon whether or not they’ve fixed a problem with the last kernel that caused automatic NFS mounts to fail, this may be a somewhat lengthier than usual process as I’m going to have to check the NFS mounts on each virtual machine after the reboot of each physical host.

     If this finishes in a reasonable period of time, virtual private servers will experience a brief outage of from 10-15 minutes each to image the machines (a form of backup).