Post here ONLY if your usergroup is missing.

by **Night Strike** on Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:40 pm

EDIT:
Lack will be getting around to all the missing forums (Off-topics is already back up) soon. If your Usergroup forum is still missing, post the name of the group here. Please only post your group once as well as keep the posts limited to just the list. The cleaner this topic stays, the better chance lack probably has to get the forums up quicker.

Original:
Geez, seems like something screwed up while I was out doing homecoming stuff. Until the admins can get something sorted out, let's not spam up the forums (or chat).

If you have a serious question about any affected games or if your Usergroup is missing, please visit the announcement thread (Clicky) or submit 1 e-ticket (Clicky).

If you wish to flame the site, just spend your time flaming Twill (we all know he likes it). But do so in Flame Wars (Clicky).

If you can't keep your conspiracy/"I hate Bush"/"I must make a post lest I lose my manhood" threads to yourself for a day or so, please keep them all in one thread. I've titled it "The 'mini' Not (Yet) Banned Forum" (Clicky). (Note: The forum rules such as no spamming do still apply to this thread. It will be locked and moved to TNYB once it returns.)

~Night Strike

by **The Fuzzy Pengui** on Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:58 am

Just an update for you, lack's aware of the problem and is going to look into it.

His response in the Suggs & Bugs thread was:

lackattack wrote:Just a little update... I have no clue why the server crash took out the off-topics forum and I'll figure it out once I'm back in town on Tuesday.

Please continue to use the thread created by NS for off-topic conversation until lack can get everything figured out

by **Twill** on Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:02 pm

Update #3:

We're going to probably have to go back through some backups, dig out just off-topics and the lost usergroups and restore them individually.

This probably wont happen until Tuesday (it's thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and so our families seem to want to spend time with us for some odd and unknown reason), so hang tight until then, off-topics and your clan forums will be coming back as soon as we can get them there.

We've heard conflicting things from the data center - we've been variously told it's the memory controller, then the hard drive something or other and then finally "sorry if the chiller failure caused you any problems"...which is what took out the database 3 months ago.

I'll post more when I know more.

Twill

by **The Fuzzy Pengui** on Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:39 am

Hey guys, here's a new temp forum for OT to rest until it's recovered.

Please check out Twill's post there so you can understand what's going on

link

by **Night Strike** on Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:48 pm

I figured I'd copy this over here (from this morning) in case it gets a bit buried:

lackattack wrote:I'm still working on restoring the missing forums. It is taking a while because I had to clean up some archived game logs on the server to make room for unzipping the most recent backup taken before the server crash. I may need an additional 48 hours or so because loading the backup takes quite a while (although it won't in the future thanks to that clean up ).

by **Night Strike** on Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:20 am

Lack will be getting around to all the missing forums (Off-topics is already back up) soon. If your Usergroup forum is still missing, post the name of the group here. Please only post your group once as well as keep the posts limited to just the list. The cleaner this topic stays, the better chance lack probably has to get the forums up quicker.