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Post by Gokhan on Jul 27, 2010 7:30:41 GMT -8
What happened to the threads and activity of whole past month? Are they gone permanently or is there a refreshing bug? Did the NIMBYs hack the board?
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Post by roadtrainer on Jul 27, 2010 9:43:11 GMT -8
What happened to the threads and activity of whole past month? Are they gone permanently or is there a refreshing bug? Did the NIMBYs hack the board? What happened/ go to look for my weekly fixe and find it all gone!   |
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Jul 27, 2010 12:10:37 GMT -8
I am on the East coast this week and when I checked early this morning, the board was offline with a few database errors.
I hope proboards didn't blow a gasket. This is a free service so they're probably not that concerned, but geez. Kinda throws cold water on adding anything new.
Even if they are able to recover, anything added after this point would be gone once they do it.
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Post by Gokhan on Jul 27, 2010 13:35:15 GMT -8
Well, let's hope not and they can fix it without losing the posts. I let Bart know and he will look into it.
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Post by Transit Coalition on Jul 27, 2010 14:25:41 GMT -8
Well, let's hope not and they can fix it without losing the posts. I let Bart know and he will look into it. Here is what the Pro Boards have to say: We are running some tests on the hard drive that appears to have failed to see if we can recover the data from it. If we are not able to recover the data we will restore from our backup server. Regardless we will be having a new hard drive installed on this server which will result in some downtime. In the event that we need to restore from backups, we have a backup of all active forums from July. Forums restored using this method will be reverted to their July backup which may be anywhere from July 1st to July 27th. Read more: support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=support&action=display&thread=363914#ixzz0uvMRpPI3 |
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Post by bobdavis on Jul 28, 2010 11:23:08 GMT -8
Uh-oh, looks like the system is still under repair. Rather like going down to the railway station and finding the tracks all torn up and repair crews and heavy machinery going "hammers & tongs". Passenger: "But this was supposed to be running at 5 AM this morning. Foreman: "Things happened." (quote from W. C. Fields movie)
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Post by Gokhan on Jul 28, 2010 13:08:47 GMT -8
Well, I'm worried that our July posts have been lost forever.
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Jul 29, 2010 14:58:53 GMT -8
Well indeed, it looks like the young gentlemen who run proboards didn't think an invesment in a mirror drive was worthwhile, so they have in fact lost everything posted after June 30.
What do do? Move? Lick our wounds and stay here? What a joke.
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Post by Transit Coalition on Jul 29, 2010 23:23:55 GMT -8
Well indeed, it looks like the young gentlemen who run proboards didn't think an invesment in a mirror drive was worthwhile, so they have in fact lost everything posted after June 30. What do do? Move? Lick our wounds and stay here? What a joke. A The threads are being restored alphabetically, so it may be a few days. |
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Post by wad on Jul 30, 2010 4:07:23 GMT -8
What do do? Move? Lick our wounds and stay here? What a joke. Proboards is far better than the previous incarnation of this board. That was really bad, because it would be attacked by spambots (and even worse ... a poster named John) and then when posts get deleted, the thread is marked new even though no new discussion occurred. |
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Jul 30, 2010 15:27:16 GMT -8
From my read of the above link, they are done doing restoration. This is all they have and it's not much. All data from July 1 at 12:00 AM Texas time is unretrievably lost. Apprently they decided to reduce backup frequency to once a month. While they have a decent board system, my suprise is that they run no sort of RAID redundancy on their data drives. It would have prevented this even without a backup - and with drives being so cheap nowadays. I mean, we're talking 50 to 100 bucks, - it's sad they didn't think it was worth the investment. It is what it is. I'll stop bitching now.  |
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Post by Gokhan on Jul 30, 2010 16:19:35 GMT -8
From my read of the above link, they are done doing restoration. This is all they have and it's not much. All data from July 1 at 12:00 AM Texas time is unretrievably lost. Apprently they decided to reduce backup frequency to once a month. While they have a decent board system, my suprise is that they run no sort of RAID redundancy on their data drives. It would have prevented this even without a backup - and with drives being so cheap nowadays. I mean, we're talking 50 to 100 bucks, - it's sad they didn't think it was worth the investment. It is what it is. I'll stop bitching now. Yes, it's no-brainer. I put mirror RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) in my work computer I assembled myself. |
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Post by metrocenter on Jul 30, 2010 17:32:05 GMT -8
In modern practice, this type of loss is not really possible. Unfortunately, it looks like the IT folks who run this board have yet to make the leap to modern practice.
RAID and backups. Indeed, a no-brainer.
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Post by ieko on Jul 30, 2010 21:06:15 GMT -8
..Not really sure why we're not using forum software via the main website -- it would solve a lot of the issues related to the site and forums.
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Post by bobdavis on Jul 30, 2010 21:51:04 GMT -8
RAID arrays aren't foolproof either--one of the music-related sites I used to visit had one and it went queep, meaning I couldn't check out local band photos anymore.
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Post by metrocenter on Jul 31, 2010 10:43:25 GMT -8
^ RAID plus regular backups, however, make it nearly impossible to lose that much data.
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