Regular Maintenance Slot: TSM (ADSM) backup server

Time: each Tuesday, 12:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Systems: all

Impact: The TSM backup servers will be partly down. It will not be possible to restore files on the central Unix or Windows systems from backups made by the TSM.

An apology must be made in advance: It is always possible that things do not work as planned. Therefore the given ending times may not be kept as promised.

Maintenance caused by: Update of the Service

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In this storage service, the default settings for permissions when sharing a directory may lead to unplanned behaviour, which we would like to draw your attention to with this information.

The behaviour is based on the fact that the default settings also include the right to delete. The result can be that data becomes inaccessible to the person who shared the data if one of the persons with whom the data was shared moves it; this corresponds to copying it to the target folder and then deleting it in the source folder.
The files and directories are not lost, but are now in the directory tree of the person who moved them.

To work around this issue until it is fixed, the recommendation is not to move any data that has been shared with you via Sync & Share. Persons already affected will be informed directly.

A support request is in progress at the manufacturer.

If you have any questions, please contact uco@desy.de.
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Since the last update of the Cisco Secure Client for vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/> on 7.3.2025, the behaviour of the software has changed.

It can happen that the previously pre-filled “vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/>” disappears in the login window of the program. Previously, the Cisco VPN software “remembered” the settings. Since the update to more recent versions, vpn.desy.de <http://vpn.desy.de/> sometimes has to be entered again.

Access to commercial channels and software repositories of Anaconda Inc. has been blocked DESY-wide with immediate effect.

Anaconda Inc. meanwhile considers research institutions like DESY as commercial users, for which corresponding usage fees apply. To prevent accidental use of non-free services it has been decided to block access to the Anaconda Inc. repositories (repo.anaconda.com) from the DESY network with immediate effect.

Existing conda environments and the Windows DSM installations will not be affected. Access to conda-forge and all other free channels hosted on anaconda.org will still be possible. Only the access to the non-free anaconda channels and download of the Anaconda Inc. provided installers (anaconda, miniconda) will not be possible anymore. We recommend to use miniforge (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge) instead.

Please get in touch with UCO (uco@desy.de) in the very unlikely case of problems due to the blocking of the commercial anaconda channels.
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