News
September 13, 2011 • 1 min read • News
BADC Webserver compromised
During the weekend the main webserver at the BADC was subjected to an attack from an external source and an intruder was able to gain access to the server. We have removed this server from operation while it is returned to a secure state and investigations to the extent of the hack are carried out.
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August 16, 2011 • 1 min read • News
Server problems - notice of affected datasets
Following system disk problems, the following datasets are temporarily unavailable:
RAPID Met Office metDB Met Office land surface data (old dataset, now superseded by MIDAS dataset which is still available) We are working at restoring access to the affected datasets as soon as possible.
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May 16, 2011 • 2 min read • News
CEDA develops visualisation service for the International Space Innovation Centre.
Coinciding with the launch the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell Oxford, STFC RAL’s Centre for Environmental Data Archival deployed a new data visualisation service for Earth Observation data.
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March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • News
BADC Spring Clean - disk maintenance advance warning
Following installation of improved air conditioning units within our server room BADC servers will be routinely taken down for required maintenance to ensure optimum operation. This is required to address some outstanding, non-critical issues as well as some additional disk issues that have recently developed.
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March 29, 2011 • 1 min read • News
Disk maintenance - MetDB, LINK and Met Office Surface datasets affected
Issues with the disks holding the MetDB, Link and Met Office Surface station data (MIDAS data are not affected) require that these disks are taken down for maintenance. These disks will be taken down this morning (Tuesday 29th March). At present we do not have a resolution time, but we will issue a fresh news item once these data are re-instated into the archive.
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March 17, 2011 • 1 min read • News
MIDAS data 2011 updates delayed
The MIDAS data at the BADC is currently updated to December 2010. Unfortunately, we are experiencing difficulties extracting the 2011 data updates from the Met Office archive. In addition to this, we have learned that the order of elements in some of the MIDAS tables have been altered slightly which will result in a mismatch between the data files we currently hold and the future data updates.
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