Another forum lost info :(

bopdude · 30-10-2004, 08:57

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Originally Posted by xda-developers

It is a sad day for this community.

In a series of mishaps and mistakes, best characterized as the sysadmin equivalent of a perfect storm, we lost more than 3 weeks of our database.

It all started when we decided to move posts to a whole new system of forums. In that process we screwed up. But we had made a backup just before, so we decided to go back to that, dropping the screwed-up database. Then it turned out that the most recent backup we made was truncated bacause of a memory limit, so it was unuseable.

This dropped us back to an older backup, which in this case was Over three weeks old!!!

This means that we lost:

All forum postings since October 4th
All new member registrations since October 4th
Records of donations since October 4th (this is recoverable...)
All News items (recoverable too)

Booo Hooo, Ii was just starting to get into this forum, lots of help etc etc etc, now i'm back to 1 post ( not to bothered about the count ) but all the help i'd got has now gone with links and all

Could this ever happen here ( NTHW ) ???

MadGamer · 30-10-2004, 09:00

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Originally Posted by bopdude

[/list]Booo Hooo, Ii was just starting to get into this forum, lots of help etc etc etc, now i'm back to 1 post ( not to bothered about the count ) but all the help i'd got has now gone with links and all

Could this ever happen here ( NTHW ) ???

Sorry to hear that. Im thinking they have forum pruning turned on here, because i was trying to look for an old game (website based) where you took control of your own city. Searched for it but couldnt find it.

bopdude · 30-10-2004, 09:01

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

Sorry to hear that. Im thinking they have forum pruning turned on here, because i was trying to look for an old game (website based) where you took control of your own city. Searched for it but couldnt find it.

We've been told that the mods don't " prune " , try pm'ing one of them and ask to see if they can find it

MadGamer · 30-10-2004, 09:04

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Originally Posted by bopdude

We've been told that the mods don't " prune " , try pm'ing one of them and ask to see if they can find it

Yeah ill do that.

Richard M · 30-10-2004, 12:47

We don't need to prune posts because we have plenty of spare disk space.

danielf · 30-10-2004, 13:12

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

Sorry to hear that. Im thinking they have forum pruning turned on here, because i was trying to look for an old game (website based) where you took control of your own city. Searched for it but couldnt find it.

http://simcity3000unlimited.ea.com/us/guide/ by any chance? You need to register, but this is free, web-based simcity.

MadGamer · 30-10-2004, 13:13

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Originally Posted by danielf

http://simcity3000unlimited.ea.com/us/guide/ by any chance? You need to register, but this is free, web-based simcity.

No that wast it

danielf · 30-10-2004, 13:14

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

No that wast it

Ah well, it seemed to fit the bill...