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| MRC Forum database corrupted (and fixed)
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4991 |  Posted: March 08 2005, 22:34 |
Due to a cause presently unkown the database table containing all forum posts at the MRC got corrupted. Luckily we make regular backups so that we could get our forums back up and running within a few minutes. 8 posts went lost in the process. We'll contact the people who posted these messages and point them to the threads they posted in, so perhaps we can get a 100% restoration of the database. Sorry for the inconvenience...
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: March 08 2005, 22:35 |
Huray to our extremely tight backup policy  |
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4991 | Posted: March 08 2005, 22:56 |
yeah, thank God for those indeed, otherwise it would have meant 41.882 forum posts down the drain (yaiks!). Everybody who posted a message which is now lost in cyberspace has been contacted. Lets hope they have good memories ^_^
MSX fans: we're back on the road!
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wolf_
msx legend
Posts: 4629 | Posted: March 08 2005, 23:01 |
How do you backup btw? send the whole forumbunch each 6 hours to 'some place' (ftp at your homes for example) ?
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4991 | Posted: March 08 2005, 23:05 |
We use a special backup tool for that one, which makes backups every 4 hours and keeps an archive (compressed, of course) of backups for about two weeks. (Just in case). The interface of this tool allows us to easily make and/or restore extra backups of the entire database or just a few selected tables. In this case, only the table containing the forum posts needed restoration. The backup we had was about 2 hours old. Restoration went, as you can see, quite smoothly.  |
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Bart
msx professional
Posts: 646 | Posted: March 08 2005, 23:16 |
Backups are stored remotely, off-server, indeed Wolf.
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spl
msx professional
Posts: 718 | Posted: March 08 2005, 23:26 |
Quick restore!  |
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