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Board Outage and Recovery

psawyer

By psawyer
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psawyer Proficient
psawyer
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The system failed around 3:23 pm (Pacific time) on Friday, November 21. Efforts to recover the database were not successful, and the board was restored from a backup taken around 1 am Pacific time on Friday.

Posts made during that period of about 14-1/2 hours are permanently lost, as are any personal messages sent during that time. Personal messages that were sent before the backup which you read on Friday will appear "new" and you will likely read them again as "new."

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Scott Adams Grand Master
Scott Adams
Posted

Thanks Peter!

Take care,

Scott

Chicklet Rookie
Chicklet
Posted

Wow, thanks for all your hard work. I know that it takes a lot of time to get stuff like that straightened out. Glad to have the forums back. :)

kenlove Rising Star
kenlove
Posted

Now I Know what Withdrawal symptoms are like!

The system failed around 3:23 pm (Pacific time) on Friday, November 21. Efforts to recover the database were not successful, and the board was restored from a backup taken around 1 am Pacific time on Friday.

Posts made during that period of about 14-1/2 hours are permanently lost, as are any personal messages sent during that time. Personal messages that were sent before the backup which you read on Friday will appear "new" and you will likely read them again as "new."

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
Posted
Now I Know what Withdrawal symptoms are like!

:lol: Ain't that the truth!

Scott--thanks for all the hard work and time you put into the board--and not just in the last few days, but every day. It means so much to so many and has helped countless people over the years.

Have a great Thanksgiving :D

Lisa16 Collaborator
Lisa16
Posted

Thank you thank you thank you thank you !

I missed everybody.

Scott Adams Grand Master
Scott Adams
Posted

Backups are a very good thing! After being up over 5 years this is the longest down time we've had-- 1.5 days, and the most data we've ever lost--about 1/2 day. Anyway, I hope the issues don't come back!

Take care,

Scott

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Mtndog Collaborator
Mtndog
Posted

Thanks for all your hard work Scott- you must have been pulling your hair out. You must have been trying to add emoticons and the board couldn't take it :P

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
Posted
Thanks for all your hard work Scott- you must have been pulling your hair out. You must have been trying to add emoticons and the board couldn't take it :P

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

Just couldn't help yerself, could ya Bev?

mamabear Explorer
mamabear
Posted

Many, many thanks, Scott!! I was trying to do a "quick fix" on my computer when I couldn't connect!!

Guess I know I'm hooked on the Forum for sure!!!

DingoGirl Enthusiast
DingoGirl
Posted

Yay! :)

coldnight Apprentice
coldnight
Posted

Nice recovery, you are king for being vigilante about backups. =)

What's weird, is ibsgroup.org went down about the same time, except they lost about 5 months of data. I guess just coincidental, but it was odd, the only two boards I've been reading both go down, doh.

I'm glad you got it back up though, really good work. Backups are not always easy to keep up with, especially for a forum this big and busy!

ksymonds84 Enthusiast
ksymonds84
Posted
Nice recovery, you are king for being vigilante about backups. =)

What's weird, is ibsgroup.org went down about the same time, except they lost about 5 months of data. I guess just coincidental, but it was odd, the only two boards I've been reading both go down, doh.

I'm glad you got it back up though, really good work. Backups are not always easy to keep up with, especially for a forum this big and busy!

I read this board too and thought it was very coincidental. They have pretty close the same format too! I'm also glad that we're back up!

coldnight Apprentice
coldnight
Posted
I read this board too and thought it was very coincidental. They have pretty close the same format too! I'm also glad that we're back up!

Yes, unless they run off the same hard drive, I doubt it was the same issue, who knows though.

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
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This is a coincidence. There is no connection between us and Open Original Shared Link

It looks like they had it a lot worse than we did. We lost 14-1/2 hours of data. It sounds like they lost 8 months of data. Speaks loudly to the importance of doing regular backups.

coldnight Apprentice
coldnight
Posted

Yes, from what I understand they had been depending on their host to do it. That's a sticky situation, because if they don't, you really have no recourse, i mean, in that you can't get the data back. But, looks like you guys do an excellent job of it.

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