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Captain Shipton Bellinger

Immortal

United Kingdom

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Data Loss After Outage?

« on: May 31, 2012, 11:12:31 am »

It looks to me like we've lost something approaching 12 hours of posts after the latest outage. Is that right? Are those posts irretrievably lost?


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Capt. Dirigible

Rogue Ætherlord

United Kingdom

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Re: Data Loss After Outage?

« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2012, 11:26:11 am »

I thought it a bit odd that there were only two new posts since I was last on at 7.pm last night!


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Madasasteamfish

Zeppelin Captain

England

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Re: Data Loss After Outage?

« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2012, 11:32:22 am »

Certainly looks like it. I've notice one of my posts is missing from yesterday and I've seen someone else reference their's being eat by the aether.


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bmgillies

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Australia

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Re: Data Loss After Outage?

« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2012, 01:17:53 pm »

Looks like a few of mine have vanished...hmmm...


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proteus

Devourer of Ugly Baked Goods
Administrator
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United States

Re: Data Loss After Outage?

« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2012, 03:50:05 pm »

Afraid so; we had a pretty severe failure, and had to restore from backup. We lost everything between the last backup and the point of failure (about 15 hours).

Fortunately, our backup system worked very well, so the loss was kept to a minimum. We don't currently have (and probably can't afford) a high-availability or high-reliability system, so this sort of thing was bound to happen eventually.

The good news is my confidence has been dramatically increased that we'll not lose more than a day's worth of data in a catastrophic event (short of the whole data center falling into the earth, which scenario has not been tested).


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Captain Shipton Bellinger

Immortal

United Kingdom

Why the goggles..? In case of ADVENTURE!

Re: Data Loss After Outage?

« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2012, 06:05:45 pm »

Ouch! Sounds like a pretty nasty server crash.

Thanks for getting us back up and running so quickly.

Quote from: proteus on May 31, 2012, 03:50:05 pm

The good news is my confidence has been dramatically increased that we'll not lose more than a day's worth of data in a catastrophic event (short of the whole data center falling into the earth, which scenario has not been tested).

Errr… the data centre is nowhere near the San Andreas fault, is it?