System Hardware Failure & Forum

Hi,

Well what a night and morning this has turned out to be. Last night at approx 12PM EST the servers disk array decided to destroy itself. This has meant that the system had to be restored from tape. Now we got everything back as at 11PM EST however the forum database was missing from the tape (yeah - great I said). We attempted to recover the files from the crashed disk array alas no data was able to be recovered. We then had to fail back to a special internal backup that I run on the server. Problem was that the system crashed before this was completed and put on tape so the net result is that we had to go back 24 hours and as such all forum threads since midnight on the 2nd have not been restored.

This is the first failure of the kind on ExplorOz and we are sorry for the inconvience. Rest assured that my next task is to migrate the forum to a new DB platform with siginificant backup and redundancy options. This has now been escalated to an urgent task. Bugger how these tasks increase in prority after a failure!

As for the rest of the site we lost nothing at all as the other databases have already been moved to the newer platform. So orders, trader, pointplace, fuel and everything else is 100% OK.

Again sorry for the hassle please feel free to re-post any threads that are now missing.