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 Jan 9 2010, 10:59 PM
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Five : General
Group: Management
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Right, so if you had noticed the errors on the site earlier today (the 9th) you'd see that the entire site was down. Well, after a lot of looking, I finally discovered that lo and behold, the ENTIRE SQL database which holds all the stored data, like posts, members, site pages, and anything that was not an HTML page. So it was all gone, just like that. The database wasn't even there anymore. I have no idea why, I don't know if we were hacked, if the server just decided to drop the database, or what.THANKFULLY, I had a backup a week old. Which is very fortunate, because prior to that, I hadn't made one in months. Well, things like this happen to all sites at some point, I guess. Who knows why.It looks like we only lost a few shouts and posts. It would've been much worse had this happened back in the old days when the forum was more active, but thanks to all of you who still drop by now and then. Oh, and manually rebuilding a 70 MB+ database is a pain in the ass. If you notice any weirdness, please tell me and I'll try to fix it.
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Top 25 Favorite Games of all time, in no order : Earthbound, Beyond Good & Evil, Perfect Dark, Paper Mario, Paper Mario 2, Super Mario 64, Metroid Prime Series, Resident Evil 4, Tales of Symphonia, Zelda : OoT, Body Harvest, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Resident Evil : REmake, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Pikmin 2, LoZ : Windwaker, SimCity 4, Goldeneye. NEW: Half-Life 2/Episodes, Mass Effect, StarFox 64, Call of Duty 4, Fallout 3.
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Jan 10 2010, 11:02 PM
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Lo righty lo right loooooo...
Group: Forum Admin
Posts: 2222
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From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Nice... so it just vanished, pretty much.
This post has been edited by NSA Bodyguard: Jan 10 2010, 11:03 PM
Reason for edit: It sent my post twice :|
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Jan 15 2010, 02:00 PM
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Five : General
Group: Management
Posts: 1589
Joined: 18-August 04
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I'll work on the cafe name, maybe change the place's name. I want to change the forum appearance anyway.
Lucky I'm not stranger to these manually rebuilding, I've done it maybe 3 times before.
As for the database error when posting, I don't know. I'll have to find out what's causing it.
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Top 25 Favorite Games of all time, in no order : Earthbound, Beyond Good & Evil, Perfect Dark, Paper Mario, Paper Mario 2, Super Mario 64, Metroid Prime Series, Resident Evil 4, Tales of Symphonia, Zelda : OoT, Body Harvest, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Resident Evil : REmake, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Pikmin 2, LoZ : Windwaker, SimCity 4, Goldeneye. NEW: Half-Life 2/Episodes, Mass Effect, StarFox 64, Call of Duty 4, Fallout 3.
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