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Hannibal Lecter Eat Me - Omniscient - Mar 7, 2011
Well that was unpleasant. I just spent over 3 hours recovering our DB. I'm unsure exactly what happened but it appears that our DB server crashed and the InnoDB tables became corrupt. I spent time attempting to recover them but I was unsuccessful. It's slightly tricky to recover the data and ultimately I decided it was best to grab the morning backup and get us online.
So what does that mean to users? Well for starters all PMs, Posts, and Users that were created since 4am are gone. If you had a marketplace sticky or some other important thread you'll need to recreate it.
For those with paid stickies today. Please PM me again your transaction ID and the thread. I'll take care of it immediately.
For those who made donations same thing. PM me again your transaction ID and I'll take care of it asap.
It's unfortunate but these things happen. I've made changes to how the DB operates hoping to have better performance. I'm praying we don't have hard drive failure coming. That might be disaster. I'm going to pay for NAS backup this week to ensure we have backups twice a day off server. It's excessive but I think we need it.
Most of the delays getting us back online was simple mysql commands to import the DB. Each attempt was about 30 minutes and the conversion I did took forever on a few tables. I sat here itching to get us back online. Most of my time I spent researching ways to increase performance and integrity.
I know it sucks to do a reversion. It sucks for all of us. But nothing I can do at this point. Sorry.
* - Zinthertar - Mar 7, 2011
It's like going back in time ! :D
* - Crucifix - Mar 7, 2011
It's ok man,I'm glad that we are back up what can you expect from a huge community like this.
* - Tyler - Mar 7, 2011
Glad to see you got it running again man. Keep up the good work.
* - Hуѕтєяιa X™ - Mar 7, 2011
That's fine, it's not really a big lost. I usually save any big threads I make, in case of things like this. All sites go down and have issues. I only lost 50 posts. Lol, thanks for getting us back online, I'm sure it was a pain in the ass.
Also, that PM thing and the title of this thread is fucked up. Lol, weird thing to name it. xD
* - Le Mieux - Mar 7, 2011
At least the sites back up and running tho. Good luck with getting everything back to normal.
* - TheUzuki.' - Mar 7, 2011
Thank you for the Info :)
.. some posts of me are gone but no really important things.
* - Іntel - Mar 7, 2011
Good to see it running again, keep up the good work.
Thanks for your efforts.
* - Emulator - Mar 7, 2011
hmm i was wondering what happened..
* - Configuration - Mar 7, 2011
Well at least you got it back up nice and quickly :) Good job always proud to be here!
* - Syaxe - Mar 7, 2011
its okay, i guess those who scammed and got -rep got lucky
* - T3h Hack3r - Mar 7, 2011
Sorry to hear the bad news Omni, although I'm glad to see that the forums are now operational again.
* - Meth - Mar 7, 2011
Thanks for notifying us. Glad HF is backup
* - Trojan - Mar 7, 2011
Thank for the update Omni.
Just get this site fixed! 👍
* - Developer - Mar 7, 2011
Good to be back online. Keep up the good work.