Announcement: IceInSpace Outage and Data Loss

iceman (Mike) · #1 15-08-2013, 04:26 PM

Hi all

Most of you may have been aware that IceInSpace has been offline for most of today, since about midnight last night.

We had a hard drive failure in our server at the data centre, and the server had to be rebuilt and restored from backup.

Unfortunately the latest backup we could restore from was from 4am Wednesday, 14th August. Which means that any posts from Wednesday 4am until the time the server went offline (midnight Wednesday) have been lost.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. Thanks also to Terry who worked tirelessly to get the server back online.

Dennis · #2 15-08-2013, 04:27 PM

Thanks for the heads up Mike, and thanks to Terry and the tireless helpers who keep the site up and running.

Cheers

Dennis

rustigsmed (Russell) · #3 15-08-2013, 04:48 PM

I was posting like a maddog yesterday! haha the advice i was giving must've been wrong

good to be back online - and a timely reminder of how important backing up your work is!

Nice work with the repairs! must've been a mammoth task!

Suzy · #4 15-08-2013, 05:48 PM

You and Terry do an amazing job in keeping this site running.
Thank you to both of you for all the tireless work you do and for getting us back on line so quickly.

Phew, I was very nervous- I was thinking I may lose my posts-the ones I put a link to (those long ones lol) that I'd worked so hard on, for helping beginners. Double phew, I can tell you!

gary · #5 15-08-2013, 05:53 PM

Thanks Terry & Mike!

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

We had a hard drive failure in our server at the data centre, and the server had to be rebuilt and restored from backup.

Ahh, that explains it. When the site came back up, I thought I could smell that "new disk" smell.

Regulus (Trevor) · #6 15-08-2013, 06:01 PM

Well Done Mike and Terry. Disk failure happen so infrequently that we forget that they have a life span. They work hard, spin fast and in this setting are often 'on' 24/7. That's why the gods recommend regular back ups. Of course, even with a good BU schedule u lose data [but apparently not Suzy's - for which we are all eternally grateful ;-) ]
Anyhoo, Well done, glad to see it all up and running.

Trevor

Steffen · #7 15-08-2013, 06:28 PM

Damn, the one day I didn't post something stupid…

Cheers
Steffen.

astroron (Ron) · #8 15-08-2013, 07:02 PM

Thanks Terry and Mike for all your hard work.

I didn't post anything in those time periods.
I am glad Suzy didn't lose any of her hard work

Cheers guys

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #9 15-08-2013, 07:12 PM

Thanks to all involved ...well done .

Flash....

rogerco (Roger) · #10 15-08-2013, 09:34 PM

Congratulations, I was online when it went down, as an IT person I appreciate the effort you guys have put in to get it back up so quickly. As with the others, many thanks for the effort it is really appreciated.

04Stefan07 (Stefan) · #11 15-08-2013, 09:54 PM

Can't even remember what I posted, lol.

redomatic (Michael) · #12 15-08-2013, 10:09 PM

Great work to all involved!!

erick (Eric) · #13 16-08-2013, 04:07 AM

Computers - it's a love/hate relationship isn't it!

Well done to recover so quickly guys.

Ric · #14 16-08-2013, 07:44 AM

Great job guys with the recovery.

Many thanks for all your efforts.

It must have been a funny day yesterday as all us tragics went on about our business without the morning fix of IIS.

iceman (Mike) · #15 16-08-2013, 08:21 AM

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

A few people have asked about PM's etc.

Sorry but any PM's you sent or received on Wednesday are also gone (on both sides). You will need to re-contact the person who you sent or received PM's from.

Octane (Humayun) · #16 16-08-2013, 12:53 PM

I went outside.

It was horrible.

H

BPO · #17 16-08-2013, 04:45 PM

There's an "outside" now?

shenanigans000 (Greg) · #18 16-08-2013, 11:15 PM

Yes, there is an Outside. And oh my - it's full of stars...!