Formal Appology to Everyone. I really screwed up.

[Heartburn 155]

Thanks Mod for all your hard work.

 

Although loosing a few posts can be a little annoying, as you mentioned that the automatic backups was corrupted it is what needed to happen to prevent a major loss off the site.

 

The only important thing is that you do you best as always and I'm sure I'm not the only one with allot of gratitude for all your efforts.

 

Live long and proper my friend,

[drlove 37202]

No worries, Mod. Everyone makes mistakes... I for one would like to extend my gratitude for all the work you do on the community's behalf in order to keep this board up and running. God only knows where we'd all be without you.

[lovethegirls 127]

Don't loose any sleep over it, as we all have our bad days. We appreciate your honesty, it means alot ! Keep up the great job you are doing overall. I don't think anyone is going to complain anyways. Have a great day MOD!

[BarrhavenWoody 10776]

So we lost 7 days...does this mean that my visit a few days ago with a lovely lady never happened? :sad:

[Miss Scarlett 25073]

lol, yup, you'll have to go see her again! haha just kidding!:bddog:

[quick25 137]

i believe this... r.ep points and post counts are probably the furthest things from people's minds. Cerb is a strong community made up of many different people who help each other out. With a community like this things like these can be overcome easy. I'm just glad that antlermans recos and posts are still here and everyone is ok.

 

Something very good came out of this however....

Luckily it was only 7 days and it allowed me to find out that the database was not backing up correctly so we are actually very fortunate. The database backup was not giving any errors and appeared to be working fine. So it would have continued to do this. If this had have happened 4 months from now (or even a year from now) we would have had to turn back the database to November 15 2010. So in a way we are very lucky we only lost 7 days. When I did the work last Monday to the system I manually backed up the database (and this is the only reason why we were lucky to only loose 7 days)

 

Anyway... maybe it was divine intervention? lol (Murphy's law more like it)

[Vanessa Kelly 836]

Big hugs ..Your heart must of skipped a couple beats....you do a great job and thank you for that :)

VK

[Adriana 114]

Like water off a ducks back. I did this to my computer once and Lost EVERYTHING. It was sickening, but we are only human! No worries Mod, it could of been a lot worse!

[Bethany Westbrooke 7532]

Anyone else lose any albums recently posted? I lost my most recent one...

 

:cry:

 

Additional Comments:

Looks like any from after 9am on the 15th to the 22nd were lost...

 

Xoxox

[PistolPete 61421]

Didn't lose any albums, but my comments were gone, and I did a lot of praising once again ;) No worries I will just wait and see those lovely photo's again, its like early Christmas presents to unwrap:lol:

[mod 135639]

Anyone else lose any albums recently posted? I lost my most recent one...

 

:cry:

 

Additional Comments:

Looks like any from after 9am on the 15th to the 22nd were lost...

 

Xoxox

 

Yes, Avatars, album photos, etc... (It's all Data that goes into the database) the actual photos would not be erased from the hard drive BUT the database holds the LINKS to the PHOTOS associating them with your profile so they would all need to be re-uploaded to the profile to build the links again.

 

Everything on this site is database driven so anything you did last week... was lost. :cry:

[Jabba 18389]

It is true.. anyone who was banned (including all the spammers from the last 7 days) get a break as the clock gets turned back. Anyone who received warnings or infractions get off easy and unfortunately anyone who received a recommendation, nominated post or reputation bump has lost it :(

 

So... Please... Everyone help each other out. If you posted a recommendation or gave someone some reputation points last week please repost the recommendation and re-rep your fellow members.

 

I know I gave a few people rep last week and for the life of me I can't remember who they all were.... I will wake up in the middle of the night and remember I am sure.

We have exhausted all our efforts to retrieve the lost posts.

 

I was up all night trying to fix everything and I called in a favor from a database specialist of mine to help too. We could not salvage the lost posts as the database. We would fix one spot and that would bring down 2 or 3 other area's.

 

Something very good came out of this however....

Luckily it was only 7 days and it allowed me to find out that the database was not backing up correctly so we are actually very fortunate. The database backup was not giving any errors and appeared to be working fine. So it would have continued to do this. If this had have happened 4 months from now (or even a year from now) we would have had to turn back the database to November 15 2010. So in a way we are very lucky we only lost 7 days. When I did the work last Monday to the system I manually backed up the database (and this is the only reason why we were lucky to only loose 7 days)

 

Anyway... maybe it was divine intervention? lol (Murphy's law more like it)

 

Lord, it sucks sometimes to be an arbitrator + DBA. You think you got a bullet-proof system and then something rude like this slaps you upside the face. I know this is a part-time thing for you Mod, so it really blows chunks when a solution just farts at you when you think you can trust it. Just take the backup system out back and shoot the damn thing!

 

Cheerfully yours,

J.:D