Well guys and gals its been almost a week that the board has been down and we have been working to get it restored. Let's start out by answering the question of what happenned? Actually we are not really sure of why but I do know that the simple answer for the long delay of getting the board back up and lost information is solely my fault because of bad system administration. My last backup was in August of this year. If I had been diligent then I woulld have done a better job at making sure that the site was backing up the way it was suppossed to. Thanks for your patience during this endeavor.
Let's just get to the chase and find out what the damage is whadya say? Well we lost about 18,000 post and roughly 4 months of interactions. I have been thinking about how I could see a good side to this and in my mind I am glad that some of the post are gone to tell you the truth. I am glad that Kerbies first post, the racial garbage, the post about LO-Busa and the hatred post have all disappeared. Unfortunately so have some great stories and pics.
I will do a better job of the backups in the future, basically I just forgot to change the CD in the burner and the disk filled and stopped making updates. I assure you that this will not happen again.
To all of you that emailed me and I never sent a reply, I apologize but responding to hundrends of emails was just not possible. To those of you that are frequent fliers on the site and sent ICQ to me, thanks for the support and offers for help. I have a new SQL admin here that really jumped in and helped me get this all straightened out, thanks Dustin..... The board looks like garbage right now but give us a few days and wait and see....
To those of you that emailed me and complained about the site being down, "you know who you are" bite me!!!
The only thing that I can really say is that you all make up the site, I hope that everyone post their information back and stories and pics are posted again. Narcissus you need to put your bikepics back up, and Lori you can just email your Hawaii pics directly to me (hahahahhaha).
To those that are new members I am sorry that you have to reregister but please do it and help the site grow. To those of you that lost a lot of post and you are back to members, well all I can say is sorry.
I hope you all understand that this is a hobby, and I am in the middle of about 10 differnet major life changes right now, so please understand that the site being down bothered me every day.
Glad were back, now start posting......
Let's just get to the chase and find out what the damage is whadya say? Well we lost about 18,000 post and roughly 4 months of interactions. I have been thinking about how I could see a good side to this and in my mind I am glad that some of the post are gone to tell you the truth. I am glad that Kerbies first post, the racial garbage, the post about LO-Busa and the hatred post have all disappeared. Unfortunately so have some great stories and pics.
I will do a better job of the backups in the future, basically I just forgot to change the CD in the burner and the disk filled and stopped making updates. I assure you that this will not happen again.
To all of you that emailed me and I never sent a reply, I apologize but responding to hundrends of emails was just not possible. To those of you that are frequent fliers on the site and sent ICQ to me, thanks for the support and offers for help. I have a new SQL admin here that really jumped in and helped me get this all straightened out, thanks Dustin..... The board looks like garbage right now but give us a few days and wait and see....
To those of you that emailed me and complained about the site being down, "you know who you are" bite me!!!
The only thing that I can really say is that you all make up the site, I hope that everyone post their information back and stories and pics are posted again. Narcissus you need to put your bikepics back up, and Lori you can just email your Hawaii pics directly to me (hahahahhaha).
To those that are new members I am sorry that you have to reregister but please do it and help the site grow. To those of you that lost a lot of post and you are back to members, well all I can say is sorry.
I hope you all understand that this is a hobby, and I am in the middle of about 10 differnet major life changes right now, so please understand that the site being down bothered me every day.
Glad were back, now start posting......
