[Cod-bugs] COD server down

[Saulius Gražulis]

Hi, Robert,

thank you for the inquiry!

On 2025-12-14 17:05, Robert McMeeking - STFC UKRI wrote:
>
> I notice that the COD homepage has not been available for a few days. 
> Are you experiencing a lot of problems with the “bots” at the moments? 
> Or are there other issues. Do you have an estimate when the server 
> will be back.
>
Yes, you are right, we suffered a  very serious overload from external 
bots and lost our main disk with the server and the main repository. I'm 
an now restoring from backups, and the plan is to restart our "warm 
standby" ASAP, hopefully in a couple of days.

On that occasion, since you have diligently collected COD cifs in real 
time – can you share you recent downloads with us? Admittedly, our 
repository backups are on month old, and a working copy in Granada 
mirror, thanks to Miguel, has a backup of 1 day old working copy, but it 
would be great to cross-check all sources including your's so that we do 
not miss any entries.

Can we access you COD CIF collection over rsync or http(s) (REST) protocols?

Regards,
Saulius

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