Marti,
on december 31.th we will do a fullbackup, then we will shutdown (CTRL-A) our
3000's
(and all the systems of our customers) but NOT power off.
Most of our customers do have UPS, so power-problems should not be a big
problem.
On january 1 all the machines will be booted, and if we are lucky (and
sometimes you have to be lucky),
we will be back and running on monday.

Regards
Thomas


Marti Jarsey wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> We are a manufacturing site and have put together our end of the
> year/rollover plan.  There is one issue which seems to be open to debate:
> whether or not to power off the 3K and 9K SPUs during the rollover.  My
> preference is to shut down applications but leave the hardware and OS
> running.
>
> Any thoughts on the pros/cons of leaving the systems up?  What are your
> sites planning?