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[jonnycool]

I recently joined quite a busy forum for Peugeot 206's as my wife bought one a while back. It's got quite a few members, as you'd expect for one of the world's most plentiful cars, and lots and lots of content (far too much IMO). Also many long-standing members.
 
Tried to log in the other day and there was a message saying that their host server has suffered a major malfunction and everything has been lost - all accounts, threads, posts, private messages etc. They are trying to build a new forum now completely from scratch. This is no great shakes to me as it doesn't compare to OOF

I was just thinking how gutted I'd be if this happened to OOF. I'm relatively new on here but I enjoy running through the sections each day to find out what's going on, as do quite a few others no doubt.

Anybody share my feelings? 

[KillerWatt]

The only way you lose "everything" in the event of a failure is if you don't bother with backups.

[jonnycool]

Don't know what their setup is, but you're right, it seems reckless not to have any backup at all

[Lazydocker]

I think the worst case here would be about a week... TB (and the Admins) is (are) right on top of keeping everything up to date

[Mr Skrunts]

Dispite the odd hiccup and outages I have seen on the OOF whilst being a member I really dont think Jamie would let that happen.

I would imagine there is quite some kit on the go in the backgroand with some of being replaced for brand new late last year.  When it has gone tits up we may have to revert to a backup, but even then I am not aware that any posts were lost

As mentioned the Admin team put a lot of effort into the OOF with Jamie being really hands on as the gear is in his back bedroom.

Longest I have ever known the OOF down was one morning or afternoon and Jamie was flat out sorting it.


The BACKUPS are the key to it all, as the Pug forum seem to have found out to thier dismay.


Oh, hang on a minute, there is a massive post issue, Vamps lost his post count due to a server crash, TB fixed it though and promptly reset it to ZERO.   

[TheBoy]

Dispite the odd hiccup and outages I have seen on the OOF whilst being a member I really dont think Jamie would let that happen.

I would imagine there is quite some kit on the go in the backgroand with some of being replaced for brand new late last year.  When it has gone tits up we may have to revert to a backup, but even then I am not aware that any posts were lost

As mentioned the Admin team put a lot of effort into the OOF with Jamie being really hands on as the gear is in his back bedroom.

Longest I have ever known the OOF down was one morning or afternoon and Jamie was flat out sorting it.


The BACKUPS are the key to it all, as the Pug forum seem to have found out to thier dismay.


Oh, hang on a minute, there is a massive post issue, Vamps lost his post count due to a server crash, TB fixed it though and promptly reset it to ZERO.   

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[Dishevelled Den]

As far as I'm concerned it would be like losing an arm, so I hope not.

I have noticed that some avatars are not loading (time out message shown) is this me?  Has been like that since this morning.

[TheBoy]

We have a faily robust backup strategy, which should account for most possibilities/scenarios that could cause data loss, and backups stored in multiple geographic locations.

Worse case would be change of IP, as this could take up to 72hrs to proporgate fully.  Though we could work around this with one of the standby domains, and use the email addresses we hold to inform membership (as we have had to in the past).

A nuclear bomb knocking out me and the other people with the knowledge to get it back up could be problematic though, but then I wouldn't care

[alunonhisown]

As far as I'm concerned it would be like losing an arm, so I hope not.

I have noticed that some avatars are not loading (time out message shown) is this me?  Has been like that since this morning.

Put an extra elastic band on your PC motor Z , works wonders with mine
D.

[TheBoy]

As far as I'm concerned it would be like losing an arm, so I hope not.

I have noticed that some avatars are not loading (time out message shown) is this me?  Has been like that since this morning.

we dont host avatars (except a few generic ones), thats an issue with people's hosting

[Mr Skrunts]

Dispite the odd hiccup and outages I have seen on the OOF whilst being a member I really dont think Jamie would let that happen.

I would imagine there is quite some kit on the go in the backgroand with some of being replaced for brand new late last year.  When it has gone tits up we may have to revert to a backup, but even then I am not aware that any posts were lost

As mentioned the Admin team put a lot of effort into the OOF with Jamie being really hands on as the gear is in his back bedroom.

Longest I have ever known the OOF down was one morning or afternoon and Jamie was flat out sorting it.


The BACKUPS are the key to it all, as the Pug forum seem to have found out to thier dismay.


Oh, hang on a minute, there is a massive post issue, Vamps lost his post count due to a server crash, TB fixed it though and promptly reset it to ZERO.   

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My Appologies.   

[Dishevelled Den]

As far as I'm concerned it would be like losing an arm, so I hope not.

I have noticed that some avatars are not loading (time out message shown) is this me?  Has been like that since this morning.

we dont host avatars (except a few generic ones), thats an issue with people's hosting

Thank you TB, I'll look at Photobucket perhaps there's a problem there.

[Mr Skrunts]

We have a faily robust backup strategy, which should account for most possibilities/scenarios that could cause data loss, and backups stored in multiple geographic locations.

Worse case would be change of IP, as this could take up to 72hrs to proporgate fully.  Though we could work around this with one of the standby domains, and use the email addresses we hold to inform membership (as we have had to in the past).

A nuclear bomb knocking out me and the other people with the knowledge to get it back up could be problematic though, but then I wouldn't care

In a case like that membership numbers might get depleated a bit.  :-/

[Vamps]

Dispite the odd hiccup and outages I have seen on the OOF whilst being a member I really dont think Jamie would let that happen.

I would imagine there is quite some kit on the go in the backgroand with some of being replaced for brand new late last year.  When it has gone tits up we may have to revert to a backup, but even then I am not aware that any posts were lost

As mentioned the Admin team put a lot of effort into the OOF with Jamie being really hands on as the gear is in his back bedroom.

Longest I have ever known the OOF down was one morning or afternoon and Jamie was flat out sorting it.


The BACKUPS are the key to it all, as the Pug forum seem to have found out to thier dismay.


Oh, hang on a minute, there is a massive post issue, Vamps lost his post count due to a server crash, TB fixed it though and promptly reset it to ZERO[/b].   

I noticed that too, after a few days I am sure this will be rectified when he manges to fix it all properly...

[jereboam]

We have a faily robust backup strategy, which should account for most possibilities/scenarios that could cause data loss, and backups stored in multiple geographic locations.

Worse case would be change of IP, as this could take up to 72hrs to proporgate fully.  Though we could work around this with one of the standby domains, and use the email addresses we hold to inform membership (as we have had to in the past).

A nuclear bomb knocking out me and the other people with the knowledge to get it back up could be problematic though, but then I wouldn't care

Er, I know I'm a bit of a worrier, but do you think that's very likely to happen?  Just like to know, for safety, you see.