[X] My Assistant

Hi, if I have to offline my server for, say, a week or so, due to drive failure and unacceptable risk of data loss, is this acceptable, do I have to do anything special?

do I have to do anything special?

Not really. Unless your client has a history of extended downtime, nothing particularly bad will happen, but we recommend avoiding downtime over two weeks since that will demote all your P1 ranges.

If the H@H server comes back without more downtime after, say, 3 weeks, about how long would it take until having the P1 ranges back?

If the H@H server comes back without more downtime after, say, 3 weeks, about how long would it take until having the P1 ranges back?

They won't "come back" as such unless the clients they were reassigned to go offline. It would be assigned new P1 ranges over time, but when (or if) it goes back to the previous count depends on regional saturation.

And just to clarify, you can still lose P1 ranges from shorter downtime, but somewhat simplified, what happens if it's back within two weeks is that if the range was reassigned and there are now duplicate P1 ranges for the region, the system will evaluate the clients that were assigned each range and decide which to keep based on client capability and performance.

But if the downtime is more than two weeks, it preemptively sets the P1 ranges of the offline client to P2, so unless no other clients were assigned the range, it loses all of them. Mostly because after two weeks, the reassigned client will have a much warmer cache than the client that was offline for the period.

Good to know. I too am having issues with my NAS right now as I'm trying to figure out exactly what the issue is, so I have no ETA on when I'll be back up and running with my H@H client. Was about to make a post basically asking the same thing when I saw this post.