SL Forum Recovery Update

[MarkG]

If you have been following the Apolyton/Community and Civ2 forums you will know that on April 14th, the Scenario League forum was accidently deleted during a maintaince procedure.

Due to the deficiency of our backup system (partially caused by the fact that Apolyton's data currently exceeds 20GB) we are able to recover only posts up to a month ago and attachments of up to 3 months ago.

The recovery should be finished in 2 days time.

After the recovery, post counts will be recalculated to include the re-added posts. After that, anyone wanting to further correct his post count should use the support system http://apolyton.net/about/contact.php

Until the recovery, cache of the most recent threads is availiable

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=1

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=2

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=3

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=4

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=5

http://apolyton.net/forums/cache.php?p=f&q=29&pagenumber=6

In response to this incident (and since Settler II is closing to his second anniversary) we will be doing a server upgrade early next month

Again our deepest apologies on this incident

[Mercator]

Re: SL Forum Recovery Update

Originally posted by MarkG
Due to the deficiency of our backup system (partially caused by the fact that Apolyton's data currently exceeds 20GB) we are able to recover only posts up to a month ago and attachments of up to 3 months ago.

Does that mean the posts in the cache won't be recovered?

[Harry Tuttle]

It's April Mark...

[MarkG]

the cached posts will be a separate process. they'll probably be copied to a directory. it's too much effort to insert them in

[Kuciwalker]

Re: SL Forum Recovery Update

Originally posted by MarkG
In response to this incident (and since Settler II is closing to his second anniversary) we will be doing a server upgrade early next month

[MarkG]

Re: Re: SL Forum Recovery Update

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

[Nikolai]

I guess he remembers the old times of server problems.

[MarkG]

real life sucks
recover process delayed until the weekend....

[Cyrion]

I hope real life gets better!

And the SL Forum too...

Thanks for your efforts!

[Dis]

I didn't realize deleting a forum would affect post count. Why is that?

[Nikolai]

Because all the posts get deleted in the process?

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Dissident
I didn't realize deleting a forum would affect post count. Why is that?

I suspect it's linked to the two incidences of massive spamming on hidden forums that Apolyton went through.

[techumseh]

Can this be transferred to the SL forum? Most members there, who are obviously the most interested, don't know to come here to find news.

And what is the news? Can we have a progress report please?

[curtsibling]

Is there anything going to be done to replace lost posts?

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[Ming]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Is there anything going to be done to replace lost posts?

.

Sigh... as stated by MarkG in the first post...

After the recovery, post counts will be recalculated to include the re-added posts. After that, anyone wanting to further correct his post count should use the support system http://apolyton.net/about/contact.php