DATABASE CORRUPTED & REPAIRED - 25 Jan 2005

[Erwin]

Apologies - at around 3 am AEST the CF database became corrupted - my fault, as I was optimizing the database and made a mistake with one of the database settings.

This caused the database to lock up and caused the forums to be inaccessible.

I found out 5 hours later when I woke up and started to repair the database.

8 hours later, the database is repaired.

There should be no loss of data.

My apologies!!!

I hope this has no inconvenienced anyone.

Praise God we did not lose any data.

 

[benedictine]

Thanks Erwin!!

 

[bigsierra]

Thanks Erwin. That's good news

It sounds like a lot of work to get it back.

 

[PaladinValer]

Thanks Erwin

 

[Matrona]

[sign]Hail Erwin, unmercenary of Christian Forums! [/sign]

A tiny request though, when CF goes down and you say CF will be back in X number of hours... can you say what time it'll be back instead? Use GMT or something? I read your note that said CF would be back in "three hours" at 10 PM EST, so I was prepared to wait until 1 AM my time since I had no clue when you had put that message up.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

forgivness is divine and afforded to all...

 

[Erwin]

[sign]Hail Erwin, unmercenary of Christian Forums! [/sign]

A tiny request though, when CF goes down and you say CF will be back in X number of hours... can you say what time it'll be back instead? Use GMT or something? I read your note that said CF would be back in "three hours" at 10 PM EST, so I was prepared to wait until 1 AM my time since I had no clue when you had put that message up.

Next time (and I pray there won't be a next time) I'll pop-on a countdown timer. How's that?

 

[aReformedPatriot]

sounds good to me... one can only visit the drudge report so many times in between checking on CF... especially when your like me, a dorm rat with nothing better to do than study and check CF to keep from going mad

 

[III John]

I'm glad to see that the board is back up and running. I was beginning to suffer from withdrawal without my daily "fix" of CF.

Whenever I had some quiet time at work, I kept going back to the office to see if it was back online.

Thanks, Erwin, for all your hard work to get us up and running again.

 

[JesusRox]

Thanks for all the hard work Erwin!!!

 

[Matrona]

Next time (and I pray there won't be a next time) I'll pop-on a countdown timer. How's that?

 

[krstlros]

Thanks Erwin. You are just too good for words.

 

[Tavita]

Yeah! Good onya mate!

 

[Swart]

Apologies - at around 3 am AEST the CF database became corrupted - my fault, as I was optimizing the database and made a mistake with one of the database settings.

This caused the database to lock up and caused the forums to be inaccessible.

I found out 5 hours later when I woke up and started to repair the database.

8 hours later, the database is repaired.

There should be no loss of data.

My apologies!!!

I hope this has no inconvenienced anyone.

Praise God we did not lose any data.

Have you considered moving away from MySQL?

 

[bubblefish]

Thankyou Erwin!

You put a lot of work into keeping these forums running

You really should be thanked

 

[joefish]

Glad to see CF back. I've done my share of breaking (public) databases. I know how it feels!

 

[MQTA]

oh wow, I was busy all day and never even noticed it was down

 

[doofus125]

Apologies - at around 3 am AEST the CF database became corrupted - my fault, as I was optimizing the database and made a mistake with one of the database settings.

This caused the database to lock up and caused the forums to be inaccessible.

I found out 5 hours later when I woke up and started to repair the database.

8 hours later, the database is repaired.

There should be no loss of data.

My apologies!!!

I hope this has no inconvenienced anyone.

Praise God we did not lose any data.

Hey Erwin, don't sweat it man! You do an awesome job with the forum! Everything you do is appreciated!

 

[crossrunner]

Its good to have my fix again. The shakes have now subsided. thanks Erwin for all your hard work!

 

[Erwin]

Have you considered moving away from MySQL?

Can't do it - the software we use is based on php and mysql.