I lost all the posts that I didn’t make about 2 months ago! Man, this sucks. Now half of my posts are gone. And there were so many interesting topics that were started, too! And I had that question in the big WILD topic that I went to check up on, and it was gone…and all those posts in the pictures topic…and that other topic…jeez, I’m not taking this very well.
If the backups really are gone…well, I guess the only thing is just to keep going. We’ll just have to start those topics over again…still sucks, though.
they said this was the first thing something like that happened to them - all RAID things had failed at once. I don’t know what RAID is but it sounds serious
it was the first time for them to have the backup lost as well, normally if something goes down they always have a backup from the day before.
Yes, i suspect it was hackers too…
btw, they have offered me one month of free hosting as compensation.
Yesterday they where busy installing all kinds of new stuff for protection and updated firewalls and what not, so that’s why everything was so slow and acted weird.
it looks like today everything is OK again…
oh darn, moogles post has disappeared It was one of my favourite posts
wow that smilie really comes in handy now.
I have never tried to to a backup with GZIP, maybe indeed this will compress it more… FYI - the last backup (no GZIP) was 168 MB.
No matter what happens something good comes out of it. When I couldn’t get to the site I looked at Sealife and the OLD forum where the ip numbers where shown…and I recnogized quite a few names. It was interesting to see the “birth” of the site.
thanks, yes that is a good idea, to backup just the post info - indeed that saves a lot - the search_word thing takes up a huge amount of space.
Maybe your friend, or our other phpbb guru who helped with the strange error (sorry, can’t remember your name) can tell me how to backup directly from the shell account, i assume there is some kind of backup command, just like the restore command i used to restore the DB after the move.
i assume i have to close the forum for a while when backing up. I wonder if it hurts to do the backup command with the forum still up and running.
Its weird, i dont know what to post, b/c all of my thoughts were alraedy posted. I go to view my posts, and its old topics that i stop looking at weeks ago, or i actually looked for old topics and responded to them as-well as new ones. Im just stuck now, im not sure what i want to talk about now , these people really threw me off…damn Hackers