You see, what had happened was....

cgilmo · Nov 1, 2011

You know you are gonna hear a convoluted story any time that phrase leads off a discussion.

Long story short, a repair of a mysql (the database engine that runs this site) table last night due to a temporary corruption led to the table being rebuilt from original install data rather than current data. This was the table that held ALL of the posts made in the history of this website. After getting the site back up and running I knew I was going to have to restore from backup as this is a situation that requires disaster recovery. Then I start looking at the backups and find out that the latest one is corrupt. No big deal, I will just go to the next days backup. This is where it became a big deal because all the backups to the 25th of October had the same corruption. The good news is that I used the down time to fix the on going sql error problems the site has been having. We lost a few days of posts, but I think we gained some stability from it.

I sincerely apologize to you the user because this site is nothing without you, and I should have verified the database backups as they were taken daily. Had I of done this, we wouldn't have lost any data.

Bob Loblaw · Nov 1, 2011

Admit it. You spilled cheetos dust into the server.

cgilmo said:
You know you are gonna hear a convoluted story any time that phrase leads off a discussion.

Long story short, a repair of a mysql (the database engine that runs this site) table last night due to a temporary corruption led to the table being rebuilt from original install data rather than current data. This was the table that held ALL of the posts made in the history of this website. After getting the site back up and running I knew I was going to have to restore from backup as this is a situation that requires disaster recovery. Then I start looking at the backups and find out that the latest one is corrupt. No big deal, I will just go to the next days backup. This is where it became a big deal because all the backups to the 25th of October had the same corruption. The good news is that I used the down time to fix the on going sql error problems the site has been having. We lost a few days of posts, but I think we gained some stability from it.

I sincerely apologize to you the user because this site is nothing without you, and I should have verified the database backups as they were taken daily. Had I of done this, we wouldn't have lost any data.

Jaypers · Nov 1, 2011

cgilmo said:
Long story short, a repair of a mysql (the database engine that runs this site) table last night due to a temporary corruption led to the table being rebuilt from original install data rather than current data. This was the table that held ALL of the posts made in the history of this website. After getting the site back up and running I knew I was going to have to restore from backup as this is a situation that requires disaster recovery. Then I start looking at the backups and find out that the latest one is corrupt. No big deal, I will just go to the next days backup. This is where it became a big deal because all the backups to the 25th of October had the same corruption. The good news is that I used the down time to fix the on going sql error problems the site has been having. We lost a few days of posts, but I think we gained some stability from it.

Ummmmmm......I like pants.

JoshHamilton · Nov 1, 2011

I need to learn about programming.

I understood about 6 words in that entire paragraph

poppudaimadochi · Nov 1, 2011

cgilmo said:
You know you are gonna hear a convoluted story any time that phrase leads off a discussion.

Long story short, a repair of a mysql (the database engine that runs this site) table last night due to a temporary corruption led to the table being rebuilt from original install data rather than current data. This was the table that held ALL of the posts made in the history of this website. After getting the site back up and running I knew I was going to have to restore from backup as this is a situation that requires disaster recovery. Then I start looking at the backups and find out that the latest one is corrupt. No big deal, I will just go to the next days backup. This is where it became a big deal because all the backups to the 25th of October had the same corruption. The good news is that I used the down time to fix the on going sql error problems the site has been having. We lost a few days of posts, but I think we gained some stability from it.

I sincerely apologize to you the user because this site is nothing without you, and I should have verified the database backups as they were taken daily. Had I of done this, we wouldn't have lost any data.

Thanks for your post, at least you are sincerely trying to explain what happened. I think I speak for everyone, we understand software problems can happen. Worst thing that could have happened is losing a couple PM for trades/sales. Big whoop, contact the person again, I say.

We're back up and running, and that is all that matters. Thanks a ton for your time!!

notjomommasclint · Nov 1, 2011

a simple it was broken works for me!

MallCopKJ · Nov 1, 2011

None of the posts in the trade forum are working.

Greg Cleveland · Nov 1, 2011

JoshHamilton said:
I need to learn about programming.

I understood about 6 words in that entire paragraph

With you there.

JoshHamilton · Nov 1, 2011

MallCopKJ said:
None of the posts in the trade forum are working.

So the trade forum remains unchanged?

ChasHawk · Nov 1, 2011

Greg Cleveland said:
JoshHamilton said:

I need to learn about programming.

I understood about 6 words in that entire paragraph

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With you there.

what it means is, as a community we lost several 1,000 posts, but the site shouldn't keep going down like a cheap ****** from this point on

Resident Bay Fan · Nov 1, 2011

Just glad it's back and running. My whole day gets all twisted when the place is down.

This is where my whole day starts everyday. Thanks for all the work you put in.

MojoDan · Nov 1, 2011

Looks like some PMs are gone too

JEA2880 · Nov 1, 2011

MojoDan said:
Looks like some PMs are gone too

Yeah was just going to say this, I definitely lost a bunch of PM's...

MojoDan · Nov 1, 2011

JEA2880 said:
MojoDan said:

Looks like some PMs are gone too

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Yeah was just going to say this, I definitely lost a bunch of PM's...

Yeah, I lost a few important ones. ::facepalm::

cgilmo · Nov 1, 2011

October 25th

this was the date of the backup that actually worked

CollectorsCorner · Nov 1, 2011

So are the threads gone for good?

MojoDan · Nov 1, 2011

JEA2880 said:
MojoDan said:

Looks like some PMs are gone too

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Yeah was just going to say this, I definitely lost a bunch of PM's...

And 5 feedback too I think

Adamsince1981 · Nov 1, 2011

What a joke.

I'm missing feedback as well.

CollectorsCorner · Nov 1, 2011

I don't care about the feedback/posts. I care about the pending deals I was working on with the pm's and original threads gone. Along with my set thread that I didn't have backed up yet which is my bad. I know I have 31 coming in but no idea which ones now.

MojoDan · Nov 1, 2011

CollectorsCorner said:
I don't care about the feedback/posts. I care about the pending deals I was working on with the pm's and original threads gone. Along with my set thread that I didn't have backed up yet which is my bad. I know I have 31 coming in but no idea which ones now.

Same here. I had few trades/purchases going. I will figure it out somehow though.

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