I know bad things may happen any times. As long as DP coming back online, I have no problem for losing Comments or anything else. As webmaster and forum owner (maintaining small groups of local university) I can feel the pain. Let's start posting again, shall we?
Well, if there is one thing that we all can learn from this, it is that a regular creation of backups is very important and should not be underestimated. Don't keep your precious data in only one place unless you don't mind losing them. I am glad that you managed to restore the website, I can imagine that it must have been very stressful.
OMG This really suckss.. I know how you feel I am glad the damage was not worse. I am sure DP will jump right back to normal pretty soon Thanks for the update.. its good to be posted.
Now that we are fully in the cluster, live backups while database is in use is nice at least... ndb_mgm> start backup Waiting for completed, this may take several minutes Node 11: Backup 3 started from node 1 Node 11: Backup 3 started from node 1 completed StartGCP: 16346 StopGCP: 16543 #Records: 308,440,152 #LogRecords: 106280 Code (markup):
Sweet! Glad to see DP is back up Sorry you had to go through so much stress. Thanks for giving us a free place to learn and conduct business through all these years. Much appreciated.
Nothing to worry dear, we understand your situation. i also faced similar situation you are lucky to have at least 2 weeks of backup where i lost 3 months of forum. Dont worry and move on we can create threads again
Tough luck man. Knew something must have gone terribly wrong somewhere when I can't access DP all morning. Thanks for bringing the site back up shawn. You rock!
If you think recent posts are gone and need the info check Google cache. The chances are it will be there for a few days. Anyway Shawn DP is still here So we are all delighted. And its still the best forum
No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen. Let's remember and start posting the missing threads and conversations.
These things happen, it's not the end of the World and it's only going to make things better for the future. I like the way the site is going, I can't help feel though that there's a lot more posts in the general chat category than other categories. I think some kind of filtering system on the What's New page so we can only see stuff related to web dev rather than "Who's better lady gaga or Madonna"
Wow not a nice experience for you. I did lose some crucial thread posts and conversations but will survive
I lost 5 likes Well at least DP is back online and I can spend endless hours stalking the forums again yay.
The good and the bad things are part of life. We must accept and through on these. Nothing to worry Shawn. I'm very very glad to see DP coming back online.
I am not sad that I have lost my comments, Likes and conversation but happy to see that DP is back and It's all for me. Loss and gain are the part of life. Whenever we lost something at the same time we also get something in return of that loss. It's the law of nature, I know it's a tough time for the Admin of DP but I have trust that they can make it much better than before and they handled the whole situation very nicely. Here I have a message for DP. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” And: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. BEST OF LUCK DP.