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Sorry guys, I have gone and done it again.
I was trying to fix an issue with the arcade and had to remove some tables and ignorantly managed to drop the database.
So I rang X-istence and asked when the last backup was and where it was kept. Unfortunately the backup script he was writing was still being developed so no backup to our NAS was actually occuring.
I did have the backup from when we moved to the new server though and I have been forced to upload that. The database backup was done on August 30th.
Fortunately after working on it for the last 4 hours, I have managed to get everything back into the order that it was almost in earlier today. Sadly the posts and threads obviously can't be recovered, as well as any members who have signed up since August 30th this year - so please sign up again (unless you already got your Razr drivers?)
Avatars and profile pics have also been affected, but the files are still there and you can access then here, they are organised by userid:
http://forum.osnn.net/profilepicsold/
http://forum.osnn.net/avatarsold/
I know there are going to be a few glitches but I think I have got most of everything updated and fortunately aside from having to upgrade vBulletin again, much of the site itself has not changed. There are a few things that have and I will be working hard to restore them.
I know X-istence is also rather upset about this as he obviously really didn't need this to happen and by sods law I was really eager to create and download a manual backup last night as MySQL is once again outgrowing our server and I was going to look into ordering an additional server today - I will delay this a little until everything is back in order.
Once again I am sorry this has happened, it makes me sick to my stomach when this happens. We have lost alot of good posts once again, I know I have made some really tough posts over the last 3 months with the loss of various animals, hard core rig pimpage as well as alot of news posts and well, the list goes on.
Feel free to flame me below if you must - I deserve it and will be working hard to get every as up to date as I can once more.
I was trying to fix an issue with the arcade and had to remove some tables and ignorantly managed to drop the database.
So I rang X-istence and asked when the last backup was and where it was kept. Unfortunately the backup script he was writing was still being developed so no backup to our NAS was actually occuring.
I did have the backup from when we moved to the new server though and I have been forced to upload that. The database backup was done on August 30th.
Fortunately after working on it for the last 4 hours, I have managed to get everything back into the order that it was almost in earlier today. Sadly the posts and threads obviously can't be recovered, as well as any members who have signed up since August 30th this year - so please sign up again (unless you already got your Razr drivers?)
Avatars and profile pics have also been affected, but the files are still there and you can access then here, they are organised by userid:
http://forum.osnn.net/profilepicsold/
http://forum.osnn.net/avatarsold/
I know there are going to be a few glitches but I think I have got most of everything updated and fortunately aside from having to upgrade vBulletin again, much of the site itself has not changed. There are a few things that have and I will be working hard to restore them.
I know X-istence is also rather upset about this as he obviously really didn't need this to happen and by sods law I was really eager to create and download a manual backup last night as MySQL is once again outgrowing our server and I was going to look into ordering an additional server today - I will delay this a little until everything is back in order.
Once again I am sorry this has happened, it makes me sick to my stomach when this happens. We have lost alot of good posts once again, I know I have made some really tough posts over the last 3 months with the loss of various animals, hard core rig pimpage as well as alot of news posts and well, the list goes on.
Feel free to flame me below if you must - I deserve it and will be working hard to get every as up to date as I can once more.