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Forum HDD crashed

warren

warren

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HI folks the server that hosts the site completely died including the Hdd's and backups.

Luckily i create an offsite backup once a week! this has now been restored so we have lost a few days posts.

im still fixing things at the moment so bear with me and im still working on all images 90% are fine the others im working on now

we are now using a backup solution
 
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And thank you too for letting us know what's been going on, like on the error page while the forum was out of action and your message at the top of this page.

Let's all be patient please as things may not be back 100% and give Warren the space to do his job. Many thanks all.
 
mikejee said:
I hope from now on there will be regular daily or bi-daily backups to a separate place than the machine holding the forum
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if only trouble is the forum is over 50GB compressed this is why i can only do weekly offsite backups and right now there are no backups being done as i haven't had chance yet
 
warren said:
fixed the missing images now as well i think thats everything any issues please post in this thread for me to look at them
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members cant post on this thread warren...some have tried and it comes up you have insufficient privileges
 
warren said:
if only trouble is the forum is over 50GB compressed this is why i can only do weekly offsite backups and right now there are no backups being done as i haven't had chance yet
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Have you considered using database replication? It's a built-in technology for most databases. There would be the cost of running a second database server but if it's only cloning the primary database it shouldn't be that expensive. In the event of a failure in the primary database server it would ensure no data is lost and would simplify restoring service. Just a thought.
 
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