Forum Crash & Data Loss (24-11-07)

[CFBC]

All,

Apologies for the loss of data due to a database/server issue that I am not sure what happened.

I tried to re-install a back-up of the forum software, but it would not take which was taken from early this morning.

Instead I had a complete server back-up from the 21-11-07 which I have installed, but two days worth of posting and pictures have been lost. Sorry.

I have no idea what happened, but I am now contacting the hosting company to seek their help as the data increase we have been experiancing is on the increase also and currently at 96% of capacity so there is a chance the forum may go offline? (I cannot guarentee either way at present).

I have spoken to several people today and am working on the situation as best as I can.

I do have everyones e-mail address backed-up and if the forum goes offline you will be notified.

Sorry to all concerned, this is teh last thing I want at present.

CFBC -smile

[Craig]

No probs CFBC, keep doing the best you can (as I'm sure you are doing). Hopefully these issues can be sorted out soon. Thanks! -smile

[chally2]

Phew, thought i had been abducted by aliens and lost 2 days or my computer was going belly up or...... leave the missus' wine alone and go back to the beer-blink-
Good luck with your endeavours, i was concerned that i could not find the site-unsure-

[Red Leader]

No Probs CFBC. Thanks ffor letting us know. Your efforts are as ever always appreciated. This is one cool and very worthwhile Forum!!

[Grim Reaper]

CFBC if you wish delete the thread I started

[TankBuster]

Thanks for letting us know. I tried to log on an hour ago & could'nt.
Hope it gets sorted soon.

If all else fails go to the tool box & select a hammer!!!

TankBuster

[planejunky]

Hang tough mate, you're doing a stirling job! -smile

[Grim Reaper]

Hang tough mate, you're doing a stirling job! -smile

Trust PJ to bring aircraft into the thread.-laugh-

PJ I think it should be Sterling job-biggrin-

But as PJ says hang tough CFBC we are all with you in spirit if not in body

[CFBC]

Thanks guys... Appreciated.

Forum is running slow at present as I am backing it up again now. Should be like that for around 20 mins.

[Red 2]

Appreciate that the forum is , in IT terms, hanging by a thread at the moment. For the benefit of all forumites, I know that CFBC has been burning the 4am oil in an attempt to keep the ship afloat.

Speaking to CFBC today, there are serious IT issues that require specialist input that will take some time to resolve satisfactorily. Issues that even very experienced forumites have difficulty understanding. And all this is having to be done by CFBC whilst still doing the day job. Being up in the small hours to keep the listing ship afloat can't be much fun.

Good luck oh shorted one

[Pilgrim_uk]

Sad to hear but good to see we have a damn fine man on the job. -biggrin-

By the way CFBC anything i have to say isn't worth backing up anyway and dont you lot ****** agree with me. Just cut me out to save space. -laugh- -laugh-

[planejunky]

Sad to hear but good to see we have a damn fine man on the job. -biggrin-

By the way CFBC anything i have to say isn't worth backing up anyway and dont you lot ****** agree with me. Just cut me out to save space. -laugh- -laugh-

Wouldn't dream of it old fruit! -laugh-

[shuttle]

Chaps, I have done some 'housekeeping' on the system tonight and freed up over 6Gb of space (being used by SQLdump files) so that we are not under so much pressure regarding storage. Please could you all persevere as though I am an IT Manager my background is not Apache or MySQL etc so I am struggling a bit!! -unsure-

The site does look a bit better though in term of overall health. I think the crash was due to the disk space being so low. I will keep an eye on it.

-smile Shuttle

[DCRanger]

though I am an IT Manager my background is not Apache or MySQL etc so I am struggling a bit!! -unsure-


-smile Shuttle

All good experience for you then. Keep up the good work. :)

[shuttle]

Good experience - that's debatable!!!

-biggrin- Shuttle

[Upkeep]

Ooops! Looks like we lost that long-winded 'Friday the 13th' thread!

[eismeer]

I thought there was a serious problem early on Saturday evening as i was unable to log on (database error) even though i had managed to do so on a number of occasions earlier in the afternoon.

CFBC, i can only imagine that you must be feeling like wiping your hands and walking away from the whole lot after all the problems (not just here) you have experienced recently but would like to offer you my total moral support in your efforts to keep the forum afloat and running (this also goes to shuttle and whoever else is involved in keeping this forum up to speed).

There is never a day goes by (holidays excluded) that i don't log on to see the latest gossip and postings from what i feel is a great bunch of "nutters" from all corners of the globe.

I wish i could offer the "team" more in the way of help other than mere words but wish you all the best in your efforts to keep this great site operational.

Tremendous loyalty on you behalf, thanks.

[Red 2]

Congratulations to Shuttle for delving deep into the murky world of forum software (on a Sat night!) and rescuing us from further crashes and post losses.

Reckon Shuttle and CFBC will be catching up on some sleep now.-biggrin-

[CFBC]

Ooops! Looks like we lost that long-winded 'Friday the 13th' thread!

Sorry. I will upload the pictures again.

[CFBC]

All good experience for you then. Keep up the good work. :)

-laugh- -laugh-

Erm, yeah... <cough>

friggin nightmare, but!

[CFBC]

Yesterday I had a chat with a few forum members I have known personally now since starting-up the forum and their support for the forum and myself as a friend has and is 110% which is what I would like to thank them for.

They mostly know that 2007 is basically a write off year personally, but losing the experiance of the IT side of the forum was also a big hill for me to climb as you can see and I can only apologise for. But:

A BIG THANK YOU must go to Shuttle for all his help and hopefully resolving the potential problem we faced of the disc storage space being consumed at an alrming rate.

Shuttle, although not his area is expertise reviewed the server and programmes running and found that a back-up of the system was being taken on a continous basis and as such was consuming the stoarage space.

This was via a back-end programme, not front-end so for myself to find it with my experiance would have been a no, no, but Ian knowing a little here and a little there has managed to recover the logs and has managed to reduce the storage own to about 60% which is where we were back in August before I upgraded.

I would like to say a personal thank you to Shuttle and those memebers that I chatted too yesterday for their support (and those that have sent me PM's too), not just a pat on the back from them, but real friendship support which I believe makes this forum what it is.

THANK YOU GUYS and THANK YOU SHUTTLE.

[Merlin G.C.]

Yesterday I had a chat with a few forum members I have known personally now since starting-up the forum and their support for the forum and myself as a friend has and is 110% which is what I would like to thank them for.

They mostly know that 2007 is basically a write off year personally, but losing the experiance of the IT side of the forum was also a big hill for me to climb as you can see and I can only apologise for. But:

A BIG THANK YOU must go to Shuttle for all his help and hopefully resolving the potential problem we faced of the disc storage space being consumed at an alrming rate.

Shuttle, although not his area is expertise reviewed the server and programmes running and found that a back-up of the system was being taken on a continous basis and as such was consuming the stoarage space.

This was via a back-end programme, not front-end so for myself to find it with my experiance would have been a no, no, but Ian knowing a little here and a little there has managed to recover the logs and has managed to reduce the storage own to about 60% which is where we were back in August before I upgraded.

I would like to say a personal thank you to Shuttle and those memebers that I chatted too yesterday for their support (and those that have sent me PM's too), not just a pat on the back from them, but real friendship support which I believe makes this forum what it is.

THANK YOU GUYS and THANK YOU SHUTTLE.

WELL DONE CFBC & SHUTTLE!!-smile -biggrin-

[shuttle]

I will try to see if I can recover the 'lost posts' in the next few days - that will be interesting...!

-biggrin- Shuttle

[CFBC]

I will try to see if I can recover the 'lost posts' in the next few days - that will be interesting...!

-biggrin- Shuttle

Thanks mate. -smile

[Martin Bull]

Yesterday I had a chat with a few forum members I have known personally now since starting-up the forum and their support for the forum and myself as a friend has and is 110% which is what I would like to thank them for.


Actually, what really happened was that after CFBC had made a load of excuses, the guy at the head of the table ( the one stroking the white cat...) murmured, 'You have FAILED, CFBC...' and then we all bombarded him with bread rolls......-laugh-

( Only kidding - being a total computer dummy -sad- , I can offer no useful help at all and can only say thanks to those who keep this place running for the enjoyment of us all as an unpaid hobby.... )

[chally2]

( Only kidding - being a total computer dummy -sad- , I can offer no useful help at all and can only say thanks to those who keep this place running for the enjoyment of us all as an unpaid hobby.... ) [/I]

I think MB sum's up my thoughts as well, thanks-smile

[DCRanger]

Not that I know anything about these things but I use Memeo to back up to an external hard drive. When I copied folders from the old PC to the new PC I didn't have as much disc space left as anticipated. Then I found that a a lot of files that had been re-named or deleted on the old PC appeared as duplicates on the new one.

Anyway, your efforts are much appreciated. I would really miss this place if it disappeared. :)

[CFBC]

Yeah.. It uses something called MYSQL DCR and Mike had set-up a daily back-up (using a back-end programme) as they are called.

In essence, back-ups going back to when Mike passed away or around August were found (thanks to Shuttle) and have been removed. This has brought the storage down from 96% to around 60%. (It's a start). -smile

I have a couple of books here on MYSQL and PHP, but each one is about 4-5" thick and with jargon that goes over me!

Me personally, well I am just getting to grips with a programme called Dreamweaver which designs and updates websites and that is hard enough, but MYSQL and PHP is for the boffins. (Sorry Shuttle - -biggrin- )

Not a case of not wanting to learn it, it's a case of having the time too. -sad-

[eismeer]

Fantastic effort and committment CFBC, shuttle and all else concerned in sorting the problems, great work-cool-

[Wolster]

Gents, your efforts are appreciated. I may not be a particularly active poster but I visit and enjoy these forums daily.

Thanks You

[Dutchie]

Good to see it all works again. Takes a lot of hours to fix these things..
Thanks!-smile

[planejunky]

Great work all round chaps, many thanks I think we'd all feel a huge loss if this place was to collapse. -smile

[Grim Reaper]

Just thought I`d add my two penth worth as well a
very big thank you to shuttle & CFBC for all their efforts.
Since finding this site it has brought me a lot of laughter at some of the posts and got to meet some nice people.

[Craig]

Well done folks, it means a lot, it's fantastic being able to visit a place where you can talk to like minded nutters without people looking at you with the sort of "they're toy planes. Get over it" look on their face. This really is a fantastic place to be, but only made so by the people that run and frequent it. Thanks CFBC and Shuttle, your efforts truly are appreciated. -smile

[shuttle]

How is everyone finding the speed of the forum since we cleared some of the disk issues? I have had no 'slow down' today but would welcome some feedback.

-unsure- Shuttle

[KO-B]

How is everyone finding the speed of the forum since we cleared some of the disk issues? I have had no 'slow down' today but would welcome some feedback.

-unsure- Shuttle
Been fine most of today, however seemed to get very slow (briefly) at around 5pm. Fine again now. Keep up the good work chaps, big thumbs up for all your efforts.

[The Defiant Man]

Well done chaps....and thanks for the sterling work in keeping it going......

[minter]

crumbs this is all news to me not being on here fo a couple of days, but very well done to the cfbc, shuttle and all involved

[Martin Bull]

Everything seems to be working very well this morning....no slow access.

Well done, Shuttle ! -smile

[Agent X20]

Slow last night around about '''Strictly''' time... I wonder why..?

...but A1 this morning... thanks to all......

[Angels one-five]

well done guys. Much respect in dealing with all the IT problems and holding down a day job! Your efforts are much appreciated - after all, what would our other halves do with us if we didn't have the forum to feed our addiction!-blink- -biggrin-

[Craig]

Is lighting fast at present.....



Well done!

[guignol1971]

Congratulation guys !! Thanks for the forum !!

[johnnyboy]

A BIG THANK YOU GUYS Not sure what I would do without this place! being stuck indoors as I am at present-happy-

[von hitchofen]

very big thank you to shuttle & CFBC for all their efforts.


absolutely - I concur most heartily -biggrin-

[CFBC]

Guys,

Was it just me or the past 15 minutes been exceedingly painfull loading-up forum pages?

Now it is lightning fast....

:confused:

[Red 2]

Guys,

Was it just me or the past 15 minutes been exceedingly painfull loading-up forum pages?

Now it is lightning fast....

:confused:

Me too....-sad- -unsure-

[eismeer]

Same here but unfortunately i am still experiencing slow refresh and page load-huh-

[prune]

Its gone really slooooowwwwww

[shuttle]

Chaps, it went slow as the server has been backing up - 1.28gb's worth!! It has finished now. I will see if we can reschedule this......

-blink- Shuttle

[Agent X20]

A note..

Does it matter what size photos you post in the forum... even if it is via Photobucket...???

[Grim Reaper]

When I first logged on it was very slow now it is fast 1 minute then slow the next got me totally :confused:

[shuttle]

Agent,

Photobucket images are hosted on their website so don't affect the forum operations.

-smile Shuttle

[Grim Reaper]

Now it is lightning fast

[shuttle]

I am getting a good response time at present - please also remember that your own ISP could be suffering general network contention.

-smile Shuttle

[Grim Reaper]

I am getting a good response time at present - please also remember that your own ISP could be suffering general network contention.

-smile Shuttle

I was browsing other sites while I was waiting for the forum to load and they all seemed to be okay

[Agent X20]

Yep.. its been a leetle slower tonite..... sorta.... there but not quite..

[Agent X20]

Agent,

Photobucket images are hosted on their website so don't affect the forum operations.

-smile Shuttle

Was only wonderin.. as some do dah posted some photos of a Harvard today.. 2 photos.... 1.5 MB.. .. took ages to download.... :( :LOL:.. overkill...

[shuttle]

Agent,

Hey, but what top quality photo's!!

-laugh- Shuttle

[eismeer]

Had to log out earlier as it got that bad but now it is absolutely zipping through the pages-cool-

[Agent X20]

Agent,

Hey, but what top quality photo's!!

-laugh- Shuttle

Not when yer sitting in some Hotel foyer passing the time of day on their 'free' internet... reminiscent of dial up days.... :)

[Av8tor]

Glad things have settled down.

Just curious. Has the lost data gone forever?

Av8tor -smile

[shuttle]

Av8tor,

I have tried to look at restoring the data but am not confident that I could without there being a risk to the database. Therefore, I suggest we just keep things going as they are. I did a reboot of the site recently which has freed up some disk space so the forum (according to the stats) is looking healthy at present.

-smile Shuttle

[Craig]

Yep, has certainy seemed more stable lately (well the database has, not sure about the members! -laugh- )

[Av8tor]

Av8tor,

I have tried to look at restoring the data but am not confident that I could without there being a risk to the database. Therefore, I suggest we just keep things going as they are. I did a reboot of the site recently which has freed up some disk space so the forum (according to the stats) is looking healthy at present.

-smile Shuttle

Thanks for reply Shuttle. Glad to hear the ship is steady at the moment, thanks for checking the dilithium crystals. Perhaps the data has ended up with all the stuff the Government has recently lost -laugh-

Av8tor -smile