The joke was ok, but...

[VetLegion]

I really laughed at the "Surprise! forums dont work...", I am glad admins keep a sence of humour in these troubled times

but I know of at least 4 posts that existed and now do not exist!? What the hell is going on? how much is lost? will they be back? will this happen again?


I didnt even know I miss Apolyton utill these days

[MarkG]

due to the server move and the extremely big file sizes involved, the forums are on the new server dont have the post of the last 36 hours or so. it is probably a few hundred posts....

[rah]

Mark, what will happen when you move them back? Will those reappear and all the new ones now dissappear? Or are those hundreds gone for good? (reasonably important for our football pool selections)

Yes good sense of humor with that message this morning. I know it's frustrating for you, and us.

It is a real joy to have the fast response time again. I thought I might actually have to do real work at work today.

Rich

[MarkG]

Originally posted by rah
Mark, what will happen when you move them back? Will those reappear and all the new ones now dissappear?

when we move back the forums will first be closed, the entire data will be transferred and then we'll re-open the forums.

things were not that certain this time in order to do the move without such issues

Or are those hundreds gone for good? (reasonably important for our football pool selections)

technically these posts still exist on the gamestats server but it's kind of difficult to access them

[Provost Harrison]

What is going on? Various posts and threads of mine seem to have disappeared?!

I noticed in the Dutch Apolyton Meeting 2002 thread (OT) that my post has disappeared, and I am sure those of other people too. My thread in this forum has disappeared about the absence of the search feature. This is weird.

[rah]

Thanks, working in DP for 20 years, I kinda figured that was gonna be the answer

It has been fun going back to some of the old threads and reblasting some people a second time knowing in advance how they'll responded to it.

Let's do the time warp again.

Hope the new year goes better than it has.

Rich
It's true that you don't really appreciate something till you miss it.

[rah]

Provost Harrison, if I understand Marks answer correctly....
when they moved to the temp server, they used a backup copy instead of copying the live files, (due to the size involved). As a result a few days of posts and threads are missing. Since they were days where the server was slow and the activity was low, it was not deemed important enough to take the time to move the live copy. (and having had to make that decision before in the workplace I can understand how hard it is to make that decision) But I can agree that it was probably the right one.

Yes this does make for strange threads that you thought you had responded in but your responce is missing. And some threads missing. Have some fun with it like I have.

Rich

[Provost Harrison]

I just thought my memory was failing for a minute

[rah]

At my age, I just assume that to be the case.
It saves time.

Rich

[Immortal Wombat]

So what server are we on?

rah, singing off with 'Rich' in a thread with 3 people and 2 'Rich's had me confused for a minute

[*End Is Forever*]

I never knew RAH was a vocalist IW...

[Chris 62]

I saw many of the threads, most wern't worth bringing back.

Rah, did you make your picks?

All the Slackers got ours in, even for the lost week.

[Dauphin]

Does it affect post counts?

[Ted Striker]

Hmmm...it sounds like those posts are trapped in some log files on the Gamestats server, log files which didn't get a chance to write to the actual database.

Sounds like restoring the logs is a pain in the ass too.


Where is a good DBA when you need him?

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
I never knew RAH was a vocalist IW...