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Data Base Crash - markg - 08-29-2009
Our SQL database, the engine that drives the forums, partially crashed friday night.
The good news is that only the postings section died; the bad news is that i wasnt able to restore just that piece, as they wouldnt hook into the indexing system. So i had to do a total restore from a backup copy made Tuesday morning.
So we lost about 4 days of stuff (tuesday morning through friday evening). During that time know nunswitguns posted a nice introduction, and i posted a few things as well, but they are gone.
Lucky we didnt lose more. But just in case i now have it backing up twice a week vs once a week. (and if this ever happens again, once a day. But i talked to one of the developers, and he said what happened cant happen. go figure....)
[edit] It seems some of the permissions got messed up with the crash, including the "Apply Here" forum. It has been fixed.
RE: Data Base Crash - markg - 10-13-2009
Figured out what caused this; its due to a defect/limitation/bug in the forum software. Basically, there is a sequence that will cause this, is repeatable (ask me how i know...) and i just wont do it again!
i have informed the developers.