JoeUser almost died last night

Catastrophic system failure

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Last night the master database became corrupt and one of the machines had a catastrophic failure.  I kind of "perfect storm" of failure -- two bad things on two seperate servers.  For a few hours, JoeUser ceased to exist. It was the worst case scenario.

However, LUCKILY, we do daily backups on all your blogs. So this incident can at least provide some assurance that all your hard work, your thoughts and written record are being treated with respect and care.

It does mean, however, that everything from yesterday is lost.  Which is ironic since I wrote a number of blogs yesterday. ;)

Update: Most articles from yesterday have been restored thanks to T-man!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm just glad I saved a copy of the article I posted yesterday. It also looks like all forum activity got rolled back, not just JU.

EDIT:It looks like my article from yesterday was just restored! Looks like the db loss wasn't total :D

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll throw in a personal thank you, too. I'm really glad that the free ice cream does come with care and respect.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
as usual brad and gang ride to the rescue, what an amazing crew to put so much love and care into a free site.

thank you all!!

MM
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanks for your hard work. I noticed my articles from last night were restored as well.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

I told Brad not to push that Big Red button with the note next to that says "Brad, Do not push this button!"

 

Well,  Looks like most everything is back in place.  Though I was able to restore most of the Articles from yesterday the comments from yesterday were lost.

 

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Strong work T-Man, strong work.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Whew! You guys are SUPER!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, I was trying to get on last night and a lot of folks from Blog Explosion were wondering why my blog wasn't loading.

Thanks T-Man, Brad and Everyone else who must have burned some midnight oil saving the JU!!! If you faired the "Perfect Storm" and all that was lost were some comments, my hat goes off to your work and skill!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

I told Brad not to push that Big Red button with the note next to that says "Brad, Do not push this button!"

Brad is lucky to have you!  We all got to protect our bosses from themselves!  Thanks a million again!

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Great job fellahs.

On a side note, and I know you have a full plate, but some of us are waiting semi-patiently for premium accounts. Just letting you know some of us will be more than willing to support the site when the opportunity is available.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thank you very much, Draginol.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thank you! Sure gave me a scare.

Dan
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
thanks for getting it all back up and running.

I rarely post anything, even replies are somewhat rare for me. But I do spend mucho time here....and without this site...i just don't know what i would do (well, I guess I do know, I would have to go find another site to spend much of my time at)

Thanks

Chris
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just curious, do you use

SQL Server, Oracle, or My-Sql ?
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
They are MS all the way, sushik.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
One quick question. I just recently joined a blog group. When I attempt to type an article, it lets me pick which one I want to type for, however it will not allow me to proceed to "Step 2" of the process. Can you help me out? Thanks!


Good save by the way
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
*sigh*....see, I love you Stardick guys.  All of you.  The chicks too.  But, I especially love T-Man...in a totally plationic way, of course.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
*sigh*....see, I love you Stardick guys. All of you. The chicks too. But, I especially love T-Man...in a totally plationic way, of course.


I get first hug!
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thank you...
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

Stardick

I hope you meant "Stardock" ...not the first time we've been called that, though.......

Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top

Freudian slip, perhaps?

Yeah, 'cause I aint gettin' any!

I hope you meant "Stardock" ...not the first time we've been called that, though.......

Yeah, I did......

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
sounds like you need to add a feature to the Blog Navigator, where it keeps your submitted blogs for a week before deleting them from the local hard drive, so users can then just resubmit an article if something happens to the server.

Of course, this is a worst case situation and it doesn't happen often, so... you probably don't need that feature. But then again, it might just sell more copies...