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https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl AUDIO FORUMS >> General Discussion and Support >> Everything looks like it is back https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1757681495 Message started by Donnie on 09/12/25 at 13:51:35 |
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Title: Everything looks like it is back Post by Donnie on 09/12/25 at 13:51:35 For the last two to three days I haven't been able to log on, I was just getting a rejection. Also the whole forum seemed to be wiped clean. At least now things look to be back to normal except it looks like the last few days didn't exist. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by Lon on 09/12/25 at 13:59:59 That's very weird--not my experience at all! |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by Kamran on 09/12/25 at 14:00:42 I was able to log on but all the posts were wiped. A Decware Forum apocalypse, if you will. Thankfully, zen has been restored. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by Donnie on 09/12/25 at 14:16:34 It was weird. I could see "most recent 50 posts" but nothing else. If I tried logging in I was rejected on either my PC or my Apple phone. This morning as I checked I saw a post that someone posted about me and CAJames both being EX members, but now that is all erased. Anyway, life has been returned to normal and the 10 times a day I swing through to check out what is going on is back! |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by CAJames on 09/12/25 at 14:24:02 Here's what I saw. Weds. PM (California time) I couldn't connect to the message board as I usually did. But I could in a private browser and the site was clearly foobar, as we say in the biz. It said there were 0 logged in users, the most recent post was from back in August, a bunch of threads were missing, including all of them in the General Discussion section, and CAJames was an ex-user (so was Donnie). It looked like there was a file system failure, or a bunch of files got deleted by mistake, or maybe the site was hacked. But whatever, by yesterday morning logins were working again and Lon was posting about his new dog (congrats on Memphis Lon!) but I was still an ex-user (so was Donnie) and the threads were still missing. This morning it looks like things are restored from a backup and we're back to "normal." So thanks Steve and whoever else rescued the site! |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by JBzen on 09/12/25 at 16:36:44 That was me Donnie! Now that thread is erased! Got to love these computers! Good seeing all is back as it was. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by CAJames on 09/12/25 at 16:47:12 As my old boss, who had been working on computers since they were running on vacuum tubes, liked to say: computers are only human. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by JBzen on 09/12/25 at 16:51:01 Well almost all back. It seems that the last 2 days worth of posts have vanished during the hack or whatever. Thanks to whoever found the right switch to restore this great forum 99.99999~% [smiley=icqlite20.png] |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by CAJames on 09/12/25 at 17:15:37 Yes, it looks like the site was restored from the Tuesday night backup. So everything after that is gone. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by Lon on 09/12/25 at 17:25:11 So weird. I had no interruption of service, all that was causing problems must have been resolved in between posts of mine, I never had to relog in. I was occupied most of Wednesday afternoon and evening with adopting this critter and getting him established and comfortable in the household and wasn't online then. I see now posts are missing. I'm sure we'll eventually get a little info from the chief and chieftaness . . . Lord knows there was enough going on in the world Wednesday . . . glad all is functioning well again. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by JBzen on 09/12/25 at 18:26:21 Wednesday Toppy posted a link to a French concert. I watched part of it at 3:04 eastern time that afternoon. When visiting the forum hours later it was noticed that Toppy's post was the last that was posted and stayed the last for many hours after that, which was very unusual for this forum. Then Lon posted in the usual manner and so forth. Got me thinking that the link for the video might have a bug. Probably not. I dug a little deeper and noticed that most the views for each thread have been zeroed out as well as 4 topic contents erased. Very weird! Maybe someone in the know might give an explanation. Regardless, it is comforting to know Steve got our back with backups ;) |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by MikeinMontana on 09/12/25 at 18:53:05 It was gone here too... but all fine now. Internet stuff... Going back outside where I belong..... music tonight though~ all the best Mike image from last night |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by CAJames on 09/12/25 at 19:37:05 Quote:
I think fundamentally the problem was a bunch of files were missing. Files with the threads were obviously gone, and either the files with the data about the threads or the programs (scripts) that process the data were missing. When I tried to login or reset my password Wed. night I would get missing file messages. Quote:
Indeed. Without going too far down the IT rabbit hole, there are a lot of places that think they are doing backups but never actually check to be sure they are really working. A lot of major IT outages over the years seem like they would have been fixed sooner with a better backup and recovery plan. |
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Title: Re: Everything looks like it is back Post by Dominick on 09/13/25 at 00:28:53 When I saw Zeros…I got a bit concerned because I check this forum daily. I’m glad that it was only out for a short amount of time. |
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