Server Crash

Post by **LPC** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:59 pm

From what I've heard from webhick and demo, there was a major hard disk crash on the server, with the result that the site had to be rebuilt from backups.

It looks to me as though we've lost every message posted in April and May, but it looks like its working now. (And just in time, because I was going through major withdrawal. I even started to read Sui Juris out of desperation.)

Post by **Famspear** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:18 pm

LPC wrote:From what I've heard from webhick and demo, there was a major hard disk crash on the server, with the result that the site had to be rebuilt from backups.

It looks to me as though we've lost every message posted in April and May, but it looks like its working now. (And just in time, because I was going through major withdrawal. I even started to read Sui Juris out of desperation.)

Withdrawal symptoms for me too.

Strangely, the network at my office has basically been down for a couple of days -- about the same time as the Quatloos forum. It's completely an unrelated coincidence of course. I took off early and came home.

Darn hard drives. Couldn't even check my email for much of the day.

It's very hard to get work done without a computer now.

ASITStands · Post by **ASITStands** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:35 pm

It's a conspiracy! We talked too much about Cracking the Code.

If the last backup was the end of March, Quatloos is in trouble. Actually, there are posts from the last week of April in other forums on the site. I suppose that's why 'webhick' says they're trying to restore as many of the missing threads as possible. Argh!

I've seen server crashes - even been in the middle of one or two of my own and had to rebuild from scratch. It's no picnic when you face losing backups or restoring data.

But, honestly, Dan! Reading Sui Juris? You do have it bad.

Bud Dickman · Post by **Bud Dickman** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:55 pm

But, honestly, Dan! Reading Sui Juris? You do have it bad.

They also missed Quatloos

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looks like the quatloos forum is down

I was checking to see if they wanted to copy/paste/ridicule, or explain away with some shallow rationalization; this thread like they do so much on other threads here.

mrg maybe you can post a spinoff on this at sjclub?

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Finding Quatloos down always gives me a thrill!

I too checked it out yesterday, curious about the chatter and crosstalk.

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Fri May 16, 2008 1:06 am

Geesh,
I happened to poke my head in after a while and there's a server crash. That's what happens where you discuss TP theories so bad that they were never meant for rational ears. Wingnuttery so bad that it crashes servers.

Imalawman · Post by **Imalawman** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:54 pm

Yes, its good to be back and online!

Post by **Prof** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:36 pm

But, once again, the new system will not recognize me -- so I'm now Prof3! I hope I have 9 lives like my cats.

Lambkin · Post by **Lambkin** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:53 am

Shh! We "crashed" the server because the diller72 thread was going so badly for the forces of darkness.

Post by **The Observer** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:17 am

prof3 wrote:But, once again, the new system will not recognize me -- so I'm now Prof3! I hope I have 9 lives like my cats.

No, but you have tripled the tax burdern on yourself by creating all of these strawmen.

RyanMcC · Post by **RyanMcC** » Sat May 17, 2008 7:44 am

The Observer wrote:
prof3 wrote:But, once again, the new system will not recognize me -- so I'm now Prof3! I hope I have 9 lives like my cats.
No, but you have tripled the tax burdern on yourself by creating all of these strawmen.

REFUSED FOR CAUSE - His screen name was not in ALL CAPS.

Post by **Quixote** » Sat May 17, 2008 6:19 pm

Lambkin wrote:Shh! We "crashed" the server because the diller72 thread was going so badly for the forces of darkness.

Speaking of which, has diller72's profile been retrieved? I wanted to hear his explanantion as to why his wages aren't taxable.

Post by **wserra** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:30 pm

Quixote wrote:Speaking of which, has diller72's profile been retrieved? I wanted to hear his explanantion as to why his wages aren't taxable.

Right.

I'd bet killerdiller is breathing a huge sigh of relief about now.

Post by **webhick** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:35 am

Considering the forum was restored from a backup dated 04/28/08 and diller's profile and posts were all dated after that, I think it's a fair assumption that he'll have to re-register and the discussion will have to be started all over again.

ASITStands · Post by **ASITStands** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:41 am

As a former IT person, I'd wonder why it was restored by a backup at least two weeks old?

Post by **Joey Smith** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:19 am

[quote="ASITStands"]As a former IT person, I'd wonder why it was restored by a backup at least two weeks old?[/quote]

The more recent backups were corrupted. Having recently switched to the new phpBB ver. 3 didn't make things any easier. Big kudos to Webhick and Quatloos' web designer John Barrick for working double-overtime to get back up with only a couple of weeks' loss.

Now, we'll see how GoDaddy's server service stands up ................

RyanMcC · Post by **RyanMcC** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:43 am

I've hosted hundreds of websites for the last 4 years. If a new server or somewhere to store backups is needed drop me a line, I'd be happy to help.

Post by **webhick** » Mon May 19, 2008 5:05 am

Joey Smith wrote:Big kudos to Webhick

I didn't do anything. It was all John.

ASITStands · Post by **ASITStands** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:02 pm

webhick wrote:
Joey Smith wrote:Big kudos to Webhick
I didn't do anything. It was all John.

Modesty becomes you.

When are we going to hear the phantasized/mythologized version?

Evil Squirrel Overlord · Mon May 19, 2008 2:37 pm

Okay, I admit it. It was me. I was obsessively searching for "Hot Squirrel on Squirrel Action Tax Deduction" when the server went down.

Post by **webhick** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:38 pm

ASITStands wrote:
webhick wrote:
Joey Smith wrote:Big kudos to Webhick
I didn't do anything. It was all John.
Modesty becomes you.

If I was being modest, I would have admitted earlier to being an idiot and assuming that any drive health issues would have been taken care of after the user table corruption happened and that we had been working with a healthy drive since then.

If someone sees a bit of data corruption on XP, they just shrug their shoulders and run a scandisk to catch anything else. It's the nature of the beast. If it happens consistently, they'll check the drive health. If someone sees a bit of data corruption on linux - they start checking that drive's health immediately. In my experience, linux is crazy reliable. The only time I've had data corruption on the debian-only partition was when the whole drive was dying. I had been working in XP a lot at the time and it was the first time I booted into linux in over a month. I loath to think of what would have happened if I didn't boot into linux that day.

The odds of there being a "next time" are slim now, but if there is, I won't be making the same mistake again.

Quatloos!

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