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Title: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Brian on January 11, 2017, 01:08:51 am
Dear community members, as you may have noticed, the forums were down for two days. Gandalf has done some work to the forums, and sadly we lost quite a large amount of data during this. During the switch of hosts (?) there appeared to be some complications, and the only solution to this was returning to a backup taken three months ago, previous to when we moved to our last new host.

This means, any topics made after September twenty-fourth, any posts, or any punishments were revoked.
This includes all bans made on the forums. I could manually add all bans and punishments again, but I will give everyone that was punished during this period a second chance to either appeal their bans, any bans or warnings made will not be re-added unless actions are repeated.

We sincerely apologize for the lost data, and we will try to make sure something like this will never happen again. I am also in contact with Gandalf in order to get the appropriate access to maintain, and optimize all of the forums, as well as to make recent backups in case we ever need them.

The modify button, as well as quoting, and all other features on the forums should work again, do you by any chance spot a feature that appears to be broken, please contact me by private message, and I'll attempt to solve it as soon as possible.

We once again apologize, and feel free to leave any questions on this topic, please remember, even due to the bad circumstances to stay civilized.


- Brian, forum webmaster.
- Gandalf, community owner.


Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Fuzzy on January 11, 2017, 01:35:15 am
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Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Loupidd on January 11, 2017, 01:48:01 am
Rest in peace "Regular" title and 260 posts.  :janek: :janek:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Carbon on January 11, 2017, 01:51:49 am
Rest in peace "Regular" title and 260 posts.  :janek: :janek:

You are welcome! Atleast we have now proper working forum! :)
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Norrage on January 11, 2017, 01:53:13 am
Well I must say, that sucks balls.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Loupidd on January 11, 2017, 01:56:18 am
I forgot to add, is there any way you can guys recover the lost data or   :janek:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Mikal on January 11, 2017, 01:56:58 am
My forum moderation was long gone and now it's back....
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Brian on January 11, 2017, 02:00:57 am
I forgot to add, is there any way you can guys recover the lost data or   :janek:
Sadly not, if there was a way we would've done it.

My forum moderation was long gone and now it's back....
I've manually removed it, please behave.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: jovanca on January 11, 2017, 02:07:09 am
im warned too :D
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: djole on January 11, 2017, 02:14:24 am
Rest in peace "Regular" title and 260 posts.  :janek: :janek:
well at least something good came from this mess

>doesn't make a backup for 3 months
>tries to fix .css layout
> ? ?
>deletes thousands of database entries
how?
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Billyy on January 11, 2017, 02:22:32 am
You guys should switch over the hosting of the SA-MP ban database while you're at it. ;)
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: AK47 on January 11, 2017, 02:33:56 am
Well this is shit
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Loupidd on January 11, 2017, 03:26:38 am
well at least something good came from this mess

>doesn't make a backup for 3 months
>tries to fix .css layout
> ? ?
>deletes thousands of database entries
how?
I mean meh, you got a point but I still haven't figured out how come they didn't make a backup all these months and how that data mess was done....

#DjoleForWebmaster
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Dutch_Hunter on January 11, 2017, 03:58:04 am
are the helper application's saved? or did we lose those to?
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Matt on January 11, 2017, 04:43:13 am
Rip my nearly 170 posts and my pic :(
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: [Rstar]Peter on January 11, 2017, 07:51:29 am
At least it works properly now :P Thanks
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Julio. on January 11, 2017, 11:26:45 am
Rest in peace "Regular" title and 260 posts.  :janek: :janek:

Doesn't take long to get there, don't worry about it  :weed:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Mark on January 11, 2017, 12:16:33 pm
Is it possible to recover topics posted during the time someone forgot to do regular backups (how smart)?
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: James on January 11, 2017, 12:30:12 pm
Thanks guys but hmm there seems to be a bug also while uploading a forum profile , gives us error saying the directory is not attachable bla bla , fix that as well if ya can I don't like empty profile pic on my profile
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Ramis on January 11, 2017, 01:36:00 pm
Tip:

Dont do backups every few months only  :D

Well , quite problematic , with a lot of my important forum topics gone. But oh well , accidents happen.
GL.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Matt Murdock on January 11, 2017, 01:50:30 pm
At least it works properly now :P Thanks
This.

Also recreate helper apps topic please.  :lol:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Jairo. on January 11, 2017, 02:54:48 pm
Hello brian. I have something to ask you, is that possible i can have my family topic again? because i dont have any backup of the topic, what should i do?
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: gabrielkiriac on January 11, 2017, 03:13:13 pm
thanks for fixing it
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: CharlieKasper on January 11, 2017, 03:39:10 pm
Now it feels weird using the fixed buttons. :D
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: NeoZ on January 11, 2017, 05:40:09 pm
RIP few posts.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Brian on January 11, 2017, 05:55:24 pm
As for the people wondering, no we sadly are not able to get any topics back from the last three months, WHAT you could try and do is use the 'web archive', it's a public tool that regularly makes a 'backup' of the forum, a sort of snapshot, most information could be gathered from there if it was public.

As for the people wondering why there was a lack of backups. I sadly have not, and still do not have access to make backups, I would've made them if I would be able to. It also had nothing to do with the CSS (Which Djole appeared to think was the issue.) but there were issues with the core of the PHP version we used, as well as the website itself. Most of those issues have been solved, a few yet to be solved, which I'll address to Gandalf as soon as I speak to them (For example, avatars and post verification.) those items will be available as soon as possible.

If you have the name of your topic, I'll be willing to scout through the web archive to see if I can find it for you.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Salmonella on January 11, 2017, 05:56:54 pm
Oh no! My postcount!

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: TheRock on January 11, 2017, 06:33:44 pm
I am happy we have a normal forum theme. My eyes are resting now! :lol:
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Hidduh on January 11, 2017, 07:08:28 pm
As for the people wondering, no we sadly are not able to get any topics back from the last three months, WHAT you could try and do is use the 'web archive', it's a public tool that regularly makes a 'backup' of the forum, a sort of snapshot, most information could be gathered from there if it was public.

Good luck trying but this will not work.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: TiMoN on January 11, 2017, 07:12:58 pm
question, why wasn't a full backup made on 1/1/2017? that seems logical to me
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Radon on January 12, 2017, 04:40:33 pm
RIP my old acc: !Michael.
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: NeoZ on January 13, 2017, 11:18:41 am
Thanks guys but hmm there seems to be a bug also while uploading a forum profile , gives us error saying the directory is not attachable bla bla , fix that as well if ya can I don't like empty profile pic on my profile
You can upload your picture to imgur and post the link instead of uploading it here
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: RastaMousey on January 13, 2017, 04:19:12 pm
Bye bye old account, hello post verification!
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: rid on January 15, 2017, 01:00:23 am
Why the hell on earth @Brian. , the FORUM WEBMASTER, does not have access to create backups?

This doesn't land well on the community, when the forum webmaster doesn't even have enough privileges to create backups of what he manages, the forum...
If you don't want to give him access, have a decent automated backup system do it for him. And not one that loses 3 months of activity...
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: RastaMousey on January 16, 2017, 12:46:04 pm
Why the hell on earth @Brian. , the FORUM WEBMASTER, does not have access to create backups?

This doesn't land well on the community, when the forum webmaster doesn't even have enough privileges to create backups of what he manages, the forum...
If you don't want to give him access, have a decent automated backup system do it for him. And not one that loses 3 months of activity...
This. It's simple!
Title: Re: Current status of the forums.
Post by: Julio. on January 20, 2017, 09:57:08 pm
question, why wasn't a full backup made on 1/1/2017? that seems logical to me

Typically for a production site with this much content that would be true... would also be true if you said "2/1/2017" or "3/1/2017" or in fact, at least an incremental backup every day!  :lol:
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