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ca05065
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2007 Post Count: 328 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@gordonbb
I have a suggestion which might work to save your completed work units: 1) Copy each of the individual BOINC data directories and its sub-directories to an external device such as an external USB hard drive. 2) Rebuild your 4 replacement rigs including installing BOINC. 3) Close BOINC 4) Copy one of the saved BOINC data directories and its sub-directories to replace the newly installed BOINC data directory. 5) Start BOINC The above does work when the underlying hardware has not changed. It depends on how much checking BOINC does between the hardware and operating system it is running on and what may be stored within the files in the BOINC data directory. I would suggest that you try to restore the BOINC data directory to CPUs of a similar speed otherwise the points will be vastly wrong. More experienced BOINC users may have thoughts on whether the suggested process is worth trying. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7844 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@gordonbb I have a suggestion which might work to save your completed work units: 1) Copy each of the individual BOINC data directories and its sub-directories to an external device such as an external USB hard drive. 2) Rebuild your 4 replacement rigs including installing BOINC. 3) Close BOINC 4) Copy one of the saved BOINC data directories and its sub-directories to replace the newly installed BOINC data directory. 5) Start BOINC The above does work when the underlying hardware has not changed. It depends on how much checking BOINC does between the hardware and operating system it is running on and what may be stored within the files in the BOINC data directory. I would suggest that you try to restore the BOINC data directory to CPUs of a similar speed otherwise the points will be vastly wrong. More experienced BOINC users may have thoughts on whether the suggested process is worth trying. I don't see why that would not work. It does seem like alot of work to save some work units which would get re-issued if they are not returned. However, I see the point about not wasting the work, especially if there is a substantial amount there. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 2173 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If you are referring with "you" as the folks at WCG, then you don't know about the differences of running a PC/home computer vs. running a (cluster of) server(s) with network attached storage. And that a good part of that current work on their end is transferring data from one (temporary) data storage to another (new) one... Well, no. As no part of your post, just like this one, was marked as a quote.You obviously didn't read who I was replying to...so.....next Certainly aren't not good a reading and doing math. Dr. Jurisica posted: Those .3TB were not an issue, THAT could have been a type but.So I was off by .3TB at that point in time...I see your one that likes rub peoples faces into the dirt if they make a mistake. To me it sounds like end of the month or sometime next month before the system is fixed and running properly. It certainly will not be monday. tthis was certainly far off...So just take your snottiness and holier than though attitude someplace else. ...Ralf |
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@gordonbb : re ca05065's suggestion above about how to save your completed work:
BOINC may be fussy if the device used to upload the results is not the one to which they were originally sent. As a precaution, before uploading, I'd at least temporarily change the name of the uploading device to match the name of the one that received them. In Windows the name may be in Control Panel >> System. Better still, if you are keeping the system hard drives from your dismantled devices, and they would boot as-is in one of the machines you are keeping, temporarily swap in and boot each of the these drives to do its uploads. Good luck. |
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 2173 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thank you all for suggestion - the move to a new storage is already in place - but we will monitor it - and hopefully all goes well from there. Indeed - the first part would be not to start new WUs - but to download existing work. Hopefully, synchronization across databases will not run into unforeseen dependencies. Well, any updates on the whole transfer/restart issue?Ralf |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Dr Jurisica
Those 74 hours you mentioned are now up. How are things doing? Mike |
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pednicholson@gmail.com
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27 Mar 2023 - - Any update please?
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2494 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Crickets chirping.
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oxley
Cruncher Joined: Feb 18, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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leaving this project... it just block space on my machines, no sync no move and it's a month already when it crashed... with no hw support it doesn't make sense to support as a user.
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2494 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay until either I die, or WCG dies, whichever comes first.
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