My donations seem to have disappeared aswell on the bar and on my profile apparently.
The database was eventually recovered from the latest daily backup successfully. Posts after 2:30am Saturday are lost.
[ Posts after 2:30am Saturday are lost.
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I'm guessing all of the post after the 26th (Thursday) were lost because all of my post I posted on the 27th and 28th and the thread I started on the 27th seem to have disappeared into a black hole.
My donations seem to have disappeared aswell on the bar and on my profile apparently.
Short version: The ISP was painting their datacenter and the painter accidentally 'elbowed' the emergency power off switch. Databases do not like instant power off. It needed to be repaired. We lost the posts while the server was confused.
Long technical version: The above statement, plus... During the data recovery the server had mixed tokens and session ID's in the system after reboot. That enabled a few to be able to log in and possibly post. However, I was unable to turn off the forum software as the switch is in the database. We were also unable to view/update via phpmyadmin. During this time, the troubleshooters attempted repair from daily and weekly backups and were unsuccessful (due to the errors stated previously). Command line on the system appeared great resulting in the technicians having quick judgments to the current status. When attempting to contact the ports for the db via 80, it would go nuts. The errors (5 of them) combined with our multiple cache system made it even more of a challenge to find the root cause.
Results: The database was eventually recovered from the latest daily backup successfully. Posts after 2:30am Saturday are lost.
Please accept our apology and thank you for your patience during the last two days.
I'm guessing all of the post after the 26th (Thursday) were lost because all of my post I posted on the 27th and 28th and the thread I started on the 27th seem to have disappeared into a black hole.
Umm....Read opWhat the heck did you posted to have caused all of this!!?
Umm....Read op
Oh...I did! The thing is the OP does not states or even hints that Apacherat posted NSA sensitive information that caused it to appear that DP had somehow "accidentally" switched the power off button! It is a conspiracy!
Hence now all his posts together with our posts (lateral damage) were removed from Saturday!
I save a copy of pretty much every post I make for just such an emergency as what happened.
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