BACK FROM THE 10th CIRCLE OF HELL WITH FULLY RESTORED FORUM/BLOGS

[mouser]

well...
it's been a painful 15 hours.. but i think we are just about back to where we were 24 hours ago, without any loss of data.
the server we were hosted on had a drive replaced without notice, and accounts were replaced with data that was over a week old.  it looked reallllly touch and go for a while, but we're now back to where we were with no loss of posts.

lesson #1 -> don't just back up the mysql forum databases once per week - i will setup a daily cron job to do it from now on.

lesson #2 -> i'll save it for my blog on friday... or for a further post after i get some sleep.

[JeffK]

time for sleepies mouser

Jeff

[mouser]

hell yeah it is.

i'll definitely tell you guys about this episode tomorrow though because there are some intersting aspects to it.

[mouser]

thanks everyone for being so patient!
i'm so relieved we didn't lose any posts or members.

[JeffK]

You weren't asleep for long.     I don't know about patient, many of us would have realised there was something difficult to solve.   Thanks for all your work on the site.

Jeff

[mouser]

this new server is seeming quite sluggish, and we're still experiencing a few dns glitches..
i'm setting up another server mirror so no worries, everything will be at top speed soon.

[Scott]

thanks everyone for being so patient!
i'm so relieved we didn't lose any posts or members.

-mouser (April 27, 2005, 02:27 AM)

Didn't we?  Some posts related to my goofy "Google Search" coding snacks thing seem to have been lost.  I thought.  Maybe.  Sorta.

[mouser]

sorry that was my fault..
there was 1 thread that was about the early idea of coding snacks that wandered off topic, and your request was in it, so i moved it to a temp area. ill move it back , for the sake of compelteness.

i will write your program at the next coding snacks if no one else does, it can be done in a few hours.