Admin Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 Guys, I am sorry for the extended downtime, but something that is not supposed to happen, happened last night. Since I have been working all day trying to recover lost data (without succeeding), I will just make this short post and get back with a better explanation tomorrow. In short, we managed to get all of our raid disk arrays "poisoned" with corrupt data that spread to all disks. How this happened, I have no idea, but this effectively killed our web and DB-servers. I have been trying all day, on a shitty cell connection, to restore data, but a couple of hours ago, the techs at the datacenter basically told me to give up. So the forum has now been restored to our last "healthy" backup and all of our servers have been reconfigured and set up from backups. Because of this, about 12-24 hours worth of content is gone. So sorry for any inconvenience when it comes to PM's posts, etc. Go ahead and resend your PM's and repost your great posts. I'm off to bed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted June 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 Just to add; Lots of content is on the way back from our backup-servers, so all images, avatars, etc should be visible again within the next 1-2 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike on a bike Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 I will go collect the boys from other sites! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptTripps Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 Go to bed. I've been there. It's a royal pita, but it happens.We'll live. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 Thanks for all your hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbolaVirus Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 It's always more likely for these types of things happen to us admins on a weekend. Thanks for trying to save everything.!Go to sleep! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 Once again we are so very lucky to have the Admin we do, who can keep our downtime from such a major crash to such a min. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted June 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 hehe...yeah...always on a weekend, when you are away and all you have is your cell phone and laptop. Great fun But NOW I am off to bed. hehey...my avatar just came back OK, NOW I am really going to go to bed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiker01 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Damn......I thought ZK finally did his thing......so much for RAID? When you have it figured out, please share your experience, it would be nice to know for us GEEKYS! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtguk Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Fuck me thank god do you know how much gardening I got through yesterday..................fucking hate gardening, still the wife was happy Thanks for getting the site back up again and saving me from more chores today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aero_Dave Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thanks for all your hard work to recover the site quickly. As a IT guy, I understand how bad things can get quickly and how hard it can be recovering data. Thanks, Dave... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougar1 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 I learned how to bake a cake, and change nappies, fucckin awful stuff like, don't ever go down again Good work admin! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panerai153 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thanks very, very much for your hard work. I'm glad that we are back up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyfras Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Good work getting the site back up. Maybe you could start a twitter account for the site so we could get updates whenever stuff like this happens? Just an idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpz5142 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 WhooHoo! Now I can get back to feeding my addiction! Thanks Admin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolexman Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thanks for all the effort. Glad we Are up and running again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Im not trying to be a smart ass, but this should not have happened with raid... But thank you for your time and effort! I finally can spend my days again here! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSTEEL Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Good to be back, thanks for the update, I too was wondering what had happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 @markiemark the boss will be back to explain later but the problem arose from the hosts not setting up everything they way our Admin asked them to. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martijnp Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 I was wondering what was going in but great to be back online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deckard1979 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thanks for Your hard work. I thought that the Ariel guy got us.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronology1066 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Glad to see things getting back to normal. Thanks to T for all the effort, gonna have to get you a 4G dongle just in case Also to echo other member it would be interesting for the geeks, techs and BOFHs to know what happened in a bit more detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indywatchguy Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Thanks admin! Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggle42 Posted June 16, 2013 Report Share Posted June 16, 2013 Big thanks for your efforts in getting the site back up and running, a dead RAID array is really no fun at all. Been there, done that. (Of course, at the blasted weekend)I thought RWG had been DDOSed off the face of the web, thought I'd never talk to any of you again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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