Update 20:39 22/10/08 Okay we’re back and I’ve enabled the forums. I’ve double checked the databases and all seems in order. Email is back up and I’m reassured that all files are back where they should be. If there are issues, please let me know via email.
Apparently the technicians are “streamlining” the backup process for us. Right this second they’ve done a mysqldump so the forums will be slow while this happens.
Update 18:14 22/10/08 We’re some of the way there not all of the files have been restored and we’re waiting on news from the technicians moving the data over as to the current ETA and status. Sorry I can’t be more descriptive but at the moment this process is currently out of my hands. The data is safe it’s just taking time to move it all on to the new drive.
As things stand some of the databases and files have yet to be moved over. Good news is at least the site is back up. As soon as I have something to post I’ll add it here.
Email is presently down for the domain, forums remain locked, backup email address is arniesairsoft AT gmail DOT com but please don’t spam it.
If you want to contact site members at this time the IRC channel is on irc.quakenet.org in channel #arniesairsoft. If you don’t have a chat client visit this page and follow the instructions.
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19/10/08 Sorry for the downtime folks, we’re having one of the hard drives looked at and then replaced on the server is it was producing errors.
This has resulted in downtime from 1700 yesterday through to this morning whilst the problems were fixed. I don’t know how far things have been fixed so far, so please do bear with things. Everything should be back to normal sometime today.
Please note: Forums are locked so that we can get the last daily backups restored.
We are waiting on a hard drive to be replaced which means copying all the data off as a redundancy measure then restoring from the previous daily backup. During this period the server may be unresponsive. Look on the bright side, it’s a weekend – go out and get some sun (if you’ve got any there). :D
This message should disappear once the server has been reinstalled and backups restored.
