Live Maintenance :: World of Warcraft

#1 Dec 23 2006 at 11:24 AM Rating: Decent

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Blizzard Notice wrote:

In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak hours with the realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm is estimated at less than 10 minutes if it was required.

Thank you,

Blizzard Entertainment.

For all of our sakes I hope that they can get this to work.

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#2 Dec 23 2006 at 12:34 PM Rating: Decent

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would be absolutely amazing. Guild Wars did something pretty similar (just pushed out patch info while you played then told you to restart when it finished).

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#3 Dec 23 2006 at 12:41 PM Rating: Decent

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Yeah I have a 155Mb update downloading, but ive been at 9% for about 2 days now...

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#4 Dec 23 2006 at 5:28 PM Rating: Good

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thats for BC not this test. This is just routine stuff not big patches.

I hope it works too though.

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#5 Dec 23 2006 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent

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Yea I just read that. Seems like a cool idea.... hopefully it works.

About the new content being downloaded via the blizzard background downloader... I've been stuck at 0% forever now....

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#6 Dec 23 2006 at 9:04 PM Rating: Decent

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The Blizzard Downloader for 2.0's pre-patch took several weeks. I think in my case, it was running pretty much constantly for a good two weeks solid. I imagine the BC pre-patch will be much the same. It's a torrent-style application, I believe, so it's got low impact on Blizzard's end, but the trade off is it takes fuggin' forever. :)

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#7 Dec 23 2006 at 9:26 PM Rating: Decent

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I was at 23% when i left home this morning, should still be downloading as we speak.

The live routine maintenance things sounds awesome and I don't even think anyone would mind a 15 minute restart either compared to the few hours of downtime we get every tuesday morning.

This is especially awesome for me since i have tuesdays off and love to PvP when i wake up in the mornings, but can't on tuesdays :(

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#8 Dec 23 2006 at 9:38 PM Rating: Decent

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Webjunky wrote:

Yea I just read that. Seems like a cool idea.... hopefully it works.

About the new content being downloaded via the blizzard background downloader... I've been stuck at 0% forever now....

same here, i just cancel it now, i figure it'll download when it wants to lol

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#9 Dec 23 2006 at 9:45 PM Rating: Decent

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I see this as a cause for "Why can't I log into the game" messages scattered throughout the week, instead of just Tuesdays (Wednesdays for EU servers). Still, its a step in the right direction.

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