STR New Tartans - Automatic Updates Down Again

**ThistleDown** · 23rd April 15, 08:54 PM

Good wishes, Peter.

**Steve Ashton** · 23rd April 15, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Pipersson

Jipeeeh!

And here's the tartan in question...but with a closer look it is ...much different.

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=2710

Tom

Ah, the infamous Kidd Tartan, AKA #43. I wonder if Cluny had any idea we would still be talking about this 196 years later.

**figheadair** · 24th April 15, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by unixken

I submit that the Advisory Committee should order the development (and annual testing) of a Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plan for all their servers. There should be no reason why a working system, assuming backups are done nightly, can not be fully restored/recovered back to it's last working state, following repair/replacement of failed components, or as a "bare metal install" on a complete replacement system.

You credit us with more influence than we actually have. The National Archives own the ITC and this problem was not solely related to the tartan software but affect some of their other databases also. The Advisory Committee provide the expert advice to the National Archives staff. We are not remunerated and are not in anyway directly connected with the running of the hardware or software.

**unixken** · 24th April 15, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by figheadair

You credit us with more influence than we actually have. The National Archives own the ITC and this problem was not solely related to the tartan software but affect some of their other databases also. The Advisory Committee provide the expert advice to the National Archives staff. We are not remunerated and are not in anyway directly connected with the running of the hardware or software.

I understand. It's just frustrating to me, as one whose career path has been in the civilian Information Technologies realm, to see such outages. They happen. But the frustration is in the time they needed, to recover.

**figheadair** · 24th April 15, 09:59 AM

Indeed. One can lead a horse.......!

**figheadair** · 26th April 15, 12:06 PM

It's down again

This from the National Archives earlier......

Further to my email below I am sorry to have to let you know but the Scottish Register of Tartans web site is again unavailable. We will be doing everything we can to restore service and will provide a further update in due course.