Easy to be smug

bobm

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Easy to be smug

« on: June 03, 2024, 10:12:23 »

We should be grateful such attention is paid in the "engine room" here to keep our forum running smoothly and regular back ups taken.

Greeted with this on another forum this morning.

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Unfortunately we have had a server crash.

We have somehow lost all posts from 29th April to 31st May.

We have also lost all the new members who registered from 29th April to 31st May.

If you registered during these dates you will have to register again if you can't log on.

We are working on getting the site back to normal as soon as possible.


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grahame

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Re: Easy to be smug

« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2024, 11:17:03 »

Thank you for the implied vote of confidence in there.

Yes - it IS easy to be smug.

Worst case I can imagine on the Coffee Shop is loosing about a week of posts, and that would be if we lost access to the server through (for example) the web space provider we use going out of business and with no access to anything there. In such a circumstance it would take around 24 hours to have a fresh setup running, but there would be a status page up rather faster than than. A "normal" server crash - if all the databases got trashed - and we would loose up to about an hour of posts and 12 hours of attached images.

We do NOT have an offsite transaction logging system and some loss in the event of a crash fatal to our databases is inevitable. We have been there - I remember spending an hour in the cruise terminal at Providence, Rhode Island restoring databases - that on the previous (physical rather than cloud) server where there was inhnerecly more risk of such things happening.


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Easy to be smug

« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2024, 22:08:09 »

Thanks, as ever, grahame! Grin

That other forum seems to have suffered a train crash, never mind a server crash. Shocked


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