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Did sth happen to BT overnight?
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:12 pm
by Aajz_Solari
Woke up, checked my e-mail, saw that I had a reply to the topic I posted yesterday. So I click the link, and lo and behold my topic no longer exists. What's up with that?
Re: Did sth happen to BT overnight?
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:16 pm
by pixelgeek
Aajz_Solari wrote:Woke up, checked my e-mail, saw that I had a reply to the topic I posted yesterday. So I click the link, and lo and behold my topic no longer exists. What's up with that?
Four of my topics have also disappeared. It looks like every topic from the 22nd to the 27th has disappered
Re: Did sth happen to BT overnight?
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:17 pm
by pixelgeek
And all the trading refs have disappeared as well
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:40 pm
by getupandgo
all my PMs from that time are gone as well, as well as my ratings i've gotten.
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:05 pm
by Warmonger
Sure looks like an old backup was restored. PMs are gone. Refs are gone. Posts are gone...
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:21 pm
by nitsky416
boourns, I wonder who sent me a PM last night...?
The Disc forum is still down ;o
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:46 pm
by Morlock-Bloodletter
From what I have found after talking with Lin, something happened with the ISP and Adam is working with them on it.
More info later.
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:17 pm
by Linrandir
Here's the story:
The ISP is SUPPOSED to perform daily backups. They did not.
Something happened, we don't know what, and one of our databases was deleted. This is why Btown was down earlier today.
When the backup was restored (only AFTER Adam emailed the ISP and blasted them) it was from a week ago. They claim to not have any other backups. So in short, the ISP just ate a week's worth of business on Bartertown.
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:50 pm
by pixelgeek
Linrandir wrote:The ISP is SUPPOSED to perform daily backups. They did not.
They never do
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:55 pm
by vesrian
Thanks for letting us know what's going on.
So from the sound of it, we should assume that everything from the 21st or so is not coming back?
Sounds like time for the "who was i trading with again???" thread.
(note to self: keep better records of pending trades)
If stuff's not coming back, can we get an official announcement somewhere letting people know to resend any recent messages, repost feedback, etc?
I suspect that not everyone is aware there was a problem. My email tells me i had 3 PMs, but i don't happen to know who they were from, so i've got to wait to hear from them. I'm sure i'm not the only one. A general announcement might be helpful.
werwer
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:29 am
by MagickalMemories
Yet another good reason to conduct all trades through email... or send an email "back up" message, in the very least.
Eric
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:32 am
by munkey joe paints
OK Magickal you have made your point again. Take your thumbs out of your ears and stop taunting the rest of us.
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:07 am
by orcdom
lol, i think i have also gotten a pm or 2 resent as well.
Steve
vhfgh
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:34 am
by MagickalMemories
OK Magickal you have made your point again. Take your thumbs out of your ears and stop taunting the rest of us.
But, Munkey... It's so FUUUUUN..
Uh... Heh heh... I said "Butt Monkey!"
Heh heh
Eric
Email is the best route, except...
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:13 pm
by Matthew Murray
I would normally agree that email is the best route to go, but my work recently put a spam email filter on our system that not only kills the spam, but also some of the legit email. I can't really complain since I only notice on trading emails, and complaining that I'm not getting Bartertown trade emails isn't a good thing to do at work.