Massive failure causes data loss!!

Undertoad · 07-15-2004, 10:42 PM

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...

07-15-2004, 10:42 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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...

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