Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

[DK]

Awesome

:o Where's my blue sig?! And all the positive rep I got in the last month?! I worked, so so hard for it!!! :9

Bah, this stinks.

[Nixon]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

Wow, that sucks.

[Valkysas]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

we lost a lot. we lost the entire pavilion. it was completely erased and I was locked out from logging in via FTP or the server's Control Panel for several hours. The most recent full-site backup that was available was from July 9th, so thats what we're running off.

I have no idea what caused the problems, but I'm going to find out. If people can tell me exactly what happened the last time they saw the pavilion, I'd appreciate it. something big happened, and I don't want it happening again.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

The Pav is my homepage, so when I got on the net this afternoon I saw an error message that said something along the lines of "There was an error accessing the gateway. Please e-mail the admin at..." That's about it.

There's no way to recover the lost data?

[Valkysas]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

doesnt look like any of the forum data can be restored. I'm going to try everything I can though.

one thing thats going to change is that I'm not just having external backups done once a month like I did. previously, an on-server backup was made every day, and once a month the backups were burned to discs for archival. well, now I'll be doing full backups every single day, so we wont get hit this bad ever again.

[Pitopito]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

I was still doing my poll about the family guy thing I started, i tried to log in yesterday but it did not let me. i got in today and it told me my name/password was not real. so i just made them again. the last time i was on nothing weird was happening though.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

And all the positive rep I got in the last month?! I worked, so so hard for it!!! :9

Bah, this stinks.

I know how you feel, Dreamy K. I'm back 9 positive rep points now.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

I was on earlier today, had to be right before whatever happened because I refreshed or backed up and suddenly couldn't get in. I wish I had some idea what happened but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Only a handful of members were online at the time.

[Valkysas]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

I'm giving out random +5 reputation increases to just about everyone I see post today, so it may get back to what it was, or higher.

[RPG Learner]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

Darn also we lost the recent game demos for RPGM2.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

Freakishly enough, I kept all my rep points, but when I check my User CP, only the rep I had way back then shows up the list.

[Valkysas]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

this backup is from when I was moving the games over to hidden directories, that arent on the forum. dont go by what the forum says to see if something isnt on the site anymore, go by the main site listings.

[Manyak]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

Wow, this is a bummer.

I'm sure I speak for everybody when I say that we appreciate all that you're doing though, Valk.

[RPGD]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

I was around when the Pavilion booboo occured. I was doing my usual rounds of posting positively and taunting Caciss and Magus when the "database error" page popped up suddenly. Everything was fine seconds before that. Nothing suspicious in particular.

[Alzar]

Re: Did we really just lose a month's worth on data?

Yeah, it was all like "OOPS! Database error! Oh man!" Really vague error message. Then it changed to the screen Renamon is talking about, where it was like "This page doesn't exist." Yeah.