Thread: Database Failure

Just making sure I understand correctly... All of my previous posts and PMs are forever gone now? There will be no restore of all the stuff lost? Right?

WooHoo we're back .. Sunday was a nightmare no reading and yesterday in work .well ooooft I had to actually do work ...
Good to see things back to day well done ..

Garry


...I see I also lost about half my posts , ah well c'est la vi

lost 200 posts myself. oh well

Haven't counted how many I lost. I am glad to see the site back up though. I would have had to keep all this stuff I have for the give away. OK I'm Just Kidding. I knew Joe and David could do it. these two guys are the greatest.

Phil

I lost close to 225 posts as well...no biggy though, I figure that it's just a small thing. What I'm really sad about is loosing some of the great threads, like the Newbie Honing Experiment, Stropping Speed experiment, and the recent threads on razor restoration and pin selection.

Boo-Urns!

Mark

Originally Posted by Philadelph

Just making sure I understand correctly... All of my previous posts and PMs are forever gone now? There will be no restore of all the stuff lost? Right?

Right.

Anything that existed in the database after the end of October 2007 is lost and gone, forever.

Yeah we need the adjustable pin threads redone. I was just about to start playing with those.

Big +1 on the adjustable thread post .. I forgot to bookmark and take note of the nut's and screw sizes Didn't think I'd need to .. just use SRP for my reference .

Originally Posted by Amyn

It is good to finally get the site back up.. good job

did the server crash due to a hacker attack or just randomly?


Is the server windows based or unix based.
Generally windows based servers are far more unstable. Microsoft (i.e. A virus) cannot develop a decent OS.

Surprised that there is no backup until going back to Oct, that stinks but we just have to suck it up and get posting

Isn't Windows just a boot sector virus with a GUI?



(As I sit typing on my Mac Book Pro....)

Originally Posted by Amyn

did the server crash due to a hacker attack or just randomly?

Is the server windows based or unix based.

Surprised that there is no backup until going back to Oct, that stinks but we just have to suck it up and get posting

To answer your questions...

1. AFAIK, the problem was not due to any outside influences (ie, a hacker or a virus). The server was supposedly a brand new machine brought on-line back in Oct. when our Host moved our account to ThePlanet's data center (which, btw, claims to be the largest privately held dedicated server host in the world... they maintain in excess of 26,000 servers.) The attachment below is just a portion of one of the many isles in their facility.
2. Our server is Unix based.
   
3. As I understand it, there were more recent backups, but they were corrupt.