Welcome back

[geoffgulley]

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... I feel like a complete loser for missing all of this.... If this had happened six months ago it would've been total clinical depression.

[feather]

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Having to work in the office was tough. Thanks for rectifying that.

[that was my 1,500 post ]

[SyntaxTerror]

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<-- LOL and I'm no longer a donator :S

[Miroslav]

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Heres a little detail why what happened happened.

We added a new DB to the server which was mounted incorrectly by the OS. As a result, the file system got corrupted and of course as luck would have it, the one KEY table on the database (the posts table) had to get fucked. Not the bloody sessions table, not the search keyword table, none of the other meaningless tables had to get corrupted beyond repair.

I thought I had a backup from Feb 01 but apparently not.

At least we only lost 10 days as opposed to the entire DB. Its been extremely disappointing but I'm only happy to put it behind me. No more screwing with the server (albeit it was meant for the good of the board this time around )

hmmm...so just out of curiosity: are you at liberty to say what will now become of the project (to remain unnamed) that you and Gatz were developing? Will it come back, or not at this time?

Thanks, by the way, for all your hard work in bringing this place back. Can't tell you how much it means..

[Corven]

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those 2 days of downtime felt like the end of internet as we know it

welcome back everyone

[Lorn]

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Don't worry....no one will know when it actually happens.

[pilot]

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I thought the world had come to an end and nobody told me

[Shpira]

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Thanks for getting us back on line but I lost my only rep green thingy!!!
I was so happy when I got it...never mind.
I wanted to ask is this waiting period from the moment i make a post till it actually appears going to stay...it wasn't here before right???

[Kamal]

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Heres a little detail why what happened happened.

We added a new DB to the server which was mounted incorrectly by the OS. As a result, the file system got corrupted and of course as luck would have it, the one KEY table on the database (the posts table) had to get fucked. Not the bloody sessions table, not the search keyword table, none of the other meaningless tables had to get corrupted beyond repair.

I thought I had a backup from Feb 01 but apparently not.

At least we only lost 10 days as opposed to the entire DB. Its been extremely disappointing but I'm only happy to put it behind me. No more screwing with the server (albeit it was meant for the good of the board this time around )

[supaz]

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Hello all...glad MS is back!

[SyntaxTerror]

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Phew... the nightmare is finally over!

I think I have the words Database error burned in to my retinas. The guy next to me at work asked why I looked at an error page so often. :/

Thanks for all the hard work admins, but on a more serious note - don't you guys do nightly backups?? If not it's a bit of a worry :/

[DancingQueen]

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he aint joking either lmao

haha that's funny

[KinKyJ]

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fuxor, 10 days @ the rate I'm posting... expect some serious spamming the next few days to make up for that hombres (edit: lost about 300 posts, har har har)

Way to go Kamal! Where would we be without you

[Gatz]

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To captain 10 days ago. Thank god its not from scratch eh!!!

1st of all thanks Kamal good work

2nd - ffs

[unkownartist]

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Serious? That is hilarious.

he aint joking either lmao