Massive failure causes data loss!!
 

What a night it's been; from 7 pm to 11:30 pm the Cellar's been down, along with everything else on its server, and all messages from approximately the last 24 hours are gone. That includes all private messages written during that time. Just gone!

The suspicion right now is a hardware failure leading to a unpredictable system during a disk write, causing very drastic filesystem corruption, and I had to re-create several sections of the server tonight and reload them from backup. And then I had an "issue" with mysql which kept me busy the last hour and a half. Turns out my restore method crunched a few permissions...

Aaannnnyway, sorry about the loss, and I'm going to rewrite my IotD now...

Lemme put that in plain English for everyone:

UT spilled some champagne on the server causing a small electrical fire that he then tried to put out with Velveeta fondue.

Bottom line: UT's gonna take the plastic cushion covers off the couch and put them on the server instead. The couch will henceforth be covered with back issues of InfoWorld :)

Toad! ALL THAT WORK! Hope you're not too devestated. Course, I am. I had gone from a Neophyte-in-Training to something like an Agitated Agitator in a matter of a few hours! Dern it! Hope things start looking up and thanks for a great place to be! :)

Dammit, but that sucks!!

(I had posted many brilliant things, as had many others here ... luckily I got to see a lot of them before they turned to vapor.)

At least it wasn't an attack outage like from that webscapel asswipe (wasn't he the one?)

Thank you for letting me know that I had not gone insane. :eek: I got on the board just now, and it was like being instantly transported to some time about 24 hours ago - like backwards deja vu, remebering things that haven't happened yet or WAS I remembering them? Sounds like you may be pulling an all nighter, UT. I'll light a candle in my window for you. ;)

Don't learn from experience*. Take the drapes down before you do that.

* not my experience. a patient's

You learn the best life's lesson's from the most unlikely of people...patients will usually show you exactly what NOT to do. I used to work as an Occupational Health Nurse for a large (3,800 employees) steel making company. They did a LOT of strange things in that thar coke plant, but they did even better stuff at home. One guy doused his brush with gasoline, lit the match and--WHOOSH!--He was OK but he couldn't come to work for a good while. Miss those guys... :)

Thought I was going mad too. Do you think there's any chance of recovering the losses?

Brianna, it's great that you are so enthusiastic about the Cellar, but it's not a contest to see who can post the most. I don't think I've ever seen anyone post as many posts in a single day as you have.

I know. I am freaking out due to mid-life crisis. I've left my "rock"--my career because I just cannot do it anymore. sorry. will be better.

That makes two, you in advertising as well?

She's a nurse, I believe. (We PM'd before the crash, and it's in her profile)

I think it was my fault. I'm cursed. My domain host has been down for going on three days, and I can't get email through my primary account. The funniest part of the whole thing is that I got the domain in the first place because of my ISP's shaky email service.

UT, thanks for the stellar work as always. You are truly a God of the Internet.

As far as all my brilliant posts being lost...I think we all know better than that. They aren't brilliant, and being lost is probably a good education for them as I made sure they didn't have any bread crumbs on them before they got lost.

My DSL was down all night last night...hmmm...

Comcast was out for me, also. Went down soon after the Cellar came back on. On the lighter side, someone emailed me that they couldn't get the Cellar. I told them I was posting when it went down about 5 pm. UT says it was about 7 pm. I wasn't even aware how long I'd been on the board, which shows how time flies when you're having fun. :biggrin: