Site Crash 8-25-2009 - Data Lost.

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We're looking at the loss of about 3,000 posts and 40 new registrations. 10-15 of those were spam bots. I'm trying to re-enter the legit registrations today.
 

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Bob,

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. Trying to save data and have regular backups and be a good host and try to give people a product they can use and be happy with.

Shame on you for having a care for customer service. ;)


I really understand the lost of data and backups not working. That happened to me this summer as well. If I had not been diligent of having certain data stored on multiple formats I may have been in a serious spot. Instead I only lost a couple of months which I could reconstruct. (* Note: a couple of months might be a normal day for this site *)


So, relax and continue the good work and we will all sing your and your staffs' praise in the end. :D
 

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You mean you lost my witty retort in the US Politics forum? You all would've been amazed. It was devastating and debilitating; a truly once in a life time combination of wise insight and cunning sarcasm with unassailable logic and uncanny accuracy.

*sigh* well everyone can just bow and submit to my presence anyway. Trust me, you would've known I deserve it had the post not been losy

Reminds me of a dilbert comic, where he is giving a presentation to some customers.

Our product isn't finished.
If it was, you'd see something here; here; and sometimes here.
And then you'd say 'I gotta get me some of that'.
Any questions?
 

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I just checked, and there's 6 rep points I won't see again in a hurry.
then again, there are worse things than losing a bit of online data. :) :(

Don't sweat it Bob. Compared to other things, this doesn't even register as 'annoying' in the grand scheme of things. I appreciate everything you and the site staff do every day to make this site work.
 
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I want to thank everyone for their understanding and support while I recover from what could have been very ugly.

I'm out of rum again and days like today are not ones where you want to be out of rum.
 

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Sorry to hear that Bob. Being in IT myself (Sys Admin to Director) I feel your pain. I have been down you road a couple of times myself. I for one can actually empathize.
 

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So much for all my wonderful post, well do I have to do twice as much to get where I was or three times as much so I can stay where Ia m at? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
 

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We're looking at the loss of about 3,000 posts and 40 new registrations. 10-15 of those were spam bots. I'm trying to re-enter the legit registrations today.

Bless yer heart. I feel for ya!

I want to thank everyone for their understanding and support while I recover from what could have been very ugly.

I'm out of rum again and days like today are not ones where you want to be out of rum.

Now I really feel for ya!!
 

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BOB,

Thanks for letting us know what the deal was. I thought that I had been talking to my self there for a while.
 

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Let's all try to help Kaith and the site recover by posting a week's worth of stuff in the LPT tonight!
 

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Great, we lose all those posts but somehow Clark Kent manages to make it to another day.... :)

Thanks for the hard work Bob.
 
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Let's all try to help Kaith and the site recover by posting a week's worth of stuff in the LPT tonight!
I have reason to believe that part of the import problem was the miles long LPT's from the other site. I still can't delete one of them from there.
 
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no, different one, in an unviewable archive area there.
 
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Because I'm a Gawd. ;) I'm now deleting it, 400 posts at a time (software limit it seems). only 25,000 or so more to go.........

Considering MTs 2 old ones are even larger.....ugh.
 

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