ePlaya is back!

[admin]

We are working on rebuilding things after our outage this afternoon. More details to follow. Please post NEW errors you run across in this forum.

All post after 2am 11/16/2004 were lost, sorry.

~Spanky

[DVD Burner]

Kudos to the Admins.

Excellent job.


Very busy people you be.

[Rian Jackson]

soooooo confused. in one spot it says BEFORE 2:00, in another AFTER.
*shug*
thanks for your tireless work, admins!

[thinkcooper]

Thanks for the repairs. The last thread I was active in lost two pages of entries from yesterday (11-16-04) afternoon.

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=7610

Will those missing pages be able to restored?

[thinkcooper]

I guess the missing post in the thread referenced above were created after 2am GMT...

[Rian Jackson]

Hi Everyone-

We suffered a catastrophic server failure at about 5:30pm Tuesday night. Spanky and Ra have put another machine in place and have restored some basic services, including most of the web site, the image gallery, and the e-playa. There may still be glitches in the services that are up, but we're on the road to recovery.

They had to restore from our previous night's backup, which happened at about 2:00am Tues morning, so any changes to any files that happened on Tuesday were lost.

This means we lost all the new topics and posts between 2am Tues and 4:30 am Wed, when they were able to get a replacement server up. We deeply regret the loss of dialogue.

Big thanks to Spanky & Ra for staying up all night dealing with this.

that was Technopatra in the announcements thread.

Seriously, though, it's kinda funny. we create art that's meant to be temporary and a city which burns after a matter of days.

i think it's ok for our conversational art to be ephemeral every now and again, too.

YAY ADMINS!!!

[technopatra]

Thanks for the repairs. The last thread I was active in lost two pages of entries from yesterday (11-16-04) afternoon.

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=7610

Will those missing pages be able to restored?

I am afraid not. The whole server went kaput, so all we had left was the backup. If the data on the dead server is recoverable at all, by the time it gets recovered all the threads will have moved on, and I'm not sure how we could add them back in without overwriting everything that's been posted since.

Bummer for us, esp when there is no one to blame. Stupid server.

On a personal note, I am especially saddened by the loss of the discussion around the "we have a dream" petition, which I thought was terrifically engaging. Sigh.

[GuinivereElise]

it's not a huge problem.... but thought I'd let you know anyway:

some of the avatars refuse to show, while some of them are fine.

anyone else having this problem?

[technopatra]

I haven't gotten any other complaints about avatars, but it's certainly possible some got cluged. Have you tried re-uploading your avatar image?

[GuinivereElise]

I haven't gotten any other complaints about avatars, but it's certainly possible some got cluged. Have you tried re-uploading your avatar image?

I'll definitely try...

it's interesting: this post is the first time I've been able to see YOUR avatar, my dear...

(and thanks for all your hard hard work... I bought you a drink in the bar...)

[GuinivereElise]

well, that helped, for sure.

Thanks, Techno. You RAWK!

[regynalonglank]

thank you for working so hard to make a place where we can be with each other. you guys and gals are the best!

ps - i am secretly glad my new thread got deleted. it had served its purpose, and now it belongs to the universe :)

[Sandwichman]

Seriously, though, it's kinda funny. we create art that's meant to be temporary and a city which burns after a matter of days.

i think it's ok for our conversational art to be ephemeral every now and again, too.

You rock!

Thank you to the Admins

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

Thanks Spanky, Ra, and TechnoPatra for your successful efforts. In my experience, your technology has been more reliable than most.

Cheers!

[technopatra]

I haven't gotten any other complaints about avatars, but it's certainly possible some got cluged. Have you tried re-uploading your avatar image?

I'll definitely try...

it's interesting: this post is the first time I've been able to see YOUR avatar, my dear...

(and thanks for all your hard hard work... I bought you a drink in the bar...)

You are totally welcome. Thanks for the drink!

[spanky]

Thanks for your kind words everyone! We're still not at 100%, but we're definitely into the "loose ends" part.

Unfortunately posts missing from 2:00 PST 11/16/2004 will not be restored. We may increase the databse backup frequency to twice a day, depending on the perceived load increase on the server.

Take care and we'll see each other at next year's on-playa Meet-n-Greet!

~Spanky

[DVD Burner]

Eplayans need to get together to takethe admins out some time.

[pinemom]

strange thing today....missing posts? lots of them!
Or are we cleaning up last yrs to make way for this yrs?

[spectabillis]

missing posts?

[emily sparkle]

i haven't been cleaning anything up and i don't think anyone is tinkering around under the hood. can you give us an example of where you think there are posts that have gone missing? what thread(s), etc? are they your posts that are missing? we've been cleaning commerce posts as always, but nothing else...

[Elderberry]

I think you should stop worrying about lost posts and UPGRADE THE SOFTWARE (available as a FREE download) and get a new SERVER so that the chances of this happening again are greatly reduced. Three day outage? Get real.

JK

[Da Mule]

They've been worrying about lost posts for the last 4 years? Someone should tell MDMF007 about this.

[Boijoy]

schwew.. I was having with drawls. I was just about to call my shrink.

[oneeyeddick]

Did they change something?

For some reason it feels greasier here than it was 3 days ago.

[Sham]

I think this went down on Sunday night. It would have been the "right thing" to post a message on the home page of BM to let people know what was happening. For one on the most imaginative groups in the world, this was far from it.
This would have been a 4-5 day outage.
I really hope someone can relay what the problem was with the server.

[theCryptofishist]

Shambala, I think you'll find that the llc is typically tone deaf to those sorts of nuances.

[Bob]

Nice improvements in the latest upgrade, I'd give it three out of five insipid smilies.

Any chance of enabling auto-reply for PMs?