How long to reboot a server?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by norfstar, Oct 15, 2005.

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    I've rebooted servers before, and they've always been back up in what seems like a couple of minutes.

    Now the virtual server where my primary sites are hosted is down. Half an hour ago, the folks at Tera-Byte (where it is hosted) said my server reboot was just finishing -- but it's still down. Is there any set of circumstance that could cause a reboot to take such a long time?
     
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  2. lindavdz

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    Longer than half an hour? Uhm, no.

    Usually servers, when they are domain controllers, can take a while shutting down and booting up, but it should not take longer than 20 minutes tops.
     
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    It's usually less than 5 minutes. Might be doing a file system check and then found some problems.
     
    HeadBuilder, Oct 15, 2005 IP