We screwed up!

[Peter Poelman]

It is a sad day for this community.

In a series of mishaps and mistakes, best characterized as the sysadmin equivalent of a perfect storm, we lost more than 3 weeks of our database.

It all started when we decided to move posts to a whole new system of forums. In that process we screwed up. But we had made a backup just before, so we decided to go back to that, dropping the screwed-up database. Then it turned out that the most recent backup we made was truncated bacause of a memory limit, so it was unuseable.

This dropped us back to an older backup, which in this case was Over three weeks old!!!


This means that we lost:

All forum postings since October 4th
All new member registrations since October 4th
Records of donations since October 4th (this is recoverable...)
All News items (recoverable too)



If you have any important postings still on disk, in browser cache, or anywhere else, we'd like you to repost them.


Re-working the forum structure will still hapen, sometime later today, and without any further dramatic losses.

I apologize for this event, and we'll work even harder to make sure something like this will never happen again.

[M4io]

index.php was renamed to index-f***.php ?
thus when i go to forum.xda-developers.com i see a directory structure ?

[collins199820]

Unlucky for some

[collins199820]

ahhh shit if lost all my previous post thing on the left hand side tooo

[Rudegar]

am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ? ;) :P

[LumpiStefan]

That are really bad news.

I realized, that also the PM-Part have been gone. :-(

This was really a great bullshit.
Also not nice to here, that you have so much work....
I think there are some more important things to do....

If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....


Stefan

[LumpiStefan]

am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ? ;) :P

If that's true, than i still have a girlfriend.... ;-)
What a wonderful day....

[Peter Poelman]

If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....

That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.

Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.

[collins199820]

Maybe the forgot to swap the spectrums tape over

[collins199820]

That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.

Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.

Time to start a new slate

[Mario Mapis]

...yesterday night I launched a full synchronization of the home page, with a 3-level links deep detail, to check the forum during a flight this morning.
Would that help? :roll:

[ajong]

More Power..... !!!

[GoldenSands]

Sorry to hear that, I was really surprised when I was checking up the forum, all threads are old. I was looking for the screen rotation thread to install it in my xda.
Isn't there any way to recover the last 3 weeks data?
Let us know if we can do any thing, you have all our support.

[cchris]

It's sad... but we would go other this...

Let us know what we can do!

Chris

[Peter Poelman]

Some threads will be partially reappearing: itsme is working on a script that will use the Google-cache as our backup. Not all will be well, but stay tuned for news...

[asci]

@ abc

Please restart SRS thread!!!

[dcs]

Arrrgh :( I've lost over 130 posts :cry:

Oh well, that's life I guess - chin up and all that! :)

[DenisJ]

Hi all ... i'm so sorry to hear this ... it's the live...

Anyway i just save a page "PDA2K Rom Update from clubimate_recovered" all msg rom first page ... i hope this will help a little 0.0001% :-)

DenisJ

[DenisJ]

It's true ... :-( i was olso at 60 posts about ...
... now i'll repost a lot :-)

DenisJ

[cruisin-thru]

Just noticed that if I attempt to access www.xda-developers.com I get your message about data being lost and to try again later, however if I use the link to the front page which I have saved in favorites, I am able to access the board. Will this stop people accessing the board from a results list in Google or similar??

If I click on the link in this text I get this......


Oh shit....

We're having problems, and we may have lost some data. Please check back later.. :shock:

[dcs]

Ha Ha :lol: That's to the point :)

[goran69]

Well it is not the first time for me to se the situation happening and folks on the other forum got well because after the screw up how you call it everobody posted the positive exirience fopmr the forum. So everobody that got something good out of this forum (software ideas directions) shopuld post it. This way not all of it but many good idesa will be back. And you will help people just like you helped me when I started.
Cheers !!

[zealot]

Can anyone tell me if this phone is the XDA 3 or not? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=69929&item=5134442429&rd=1
How do you think about the price?
I want to buy a PDA phone, anybody have suggestion for which one is the best?

[AVP]

@ abc

Please restart SRS thread!!!
i'm totally lost with SRS! It wasn't easy last time and it's surely not so good this time ;-)

Is this repost or new version? (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=63537#63537)

[Z-man]

cheer-up mate! its ok... you know what they say, "shit happens" :)

[i3oyi3astos]

In the words of Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact

LIFE WILL GO ON :D

All humans commit mistakes, but then, i did consider some of the people here, especially the admins as god. hehe

[complete]

Can anyone tell me if this phone is the XDA 3 or not? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=69929&item=5134442429&rd=1
How do you think about the price?
I want to buy a PDA phone, anybody have suggestion for which one is the best?

Yes it is the MDA 3 / XDA 3.

Keypads a bit fiddly, especially capital A, but wi-fi picks up extremely wquick.... :lol:

[Jupiter]

Oh no! All those enlightening posts!. :cry:

[rpc]

huh? :( waaa my post it's gone... ok that's life. there nothing we can do about it.

[ronald2oo2]

Did anyone post the WM2003 SE ROM in the last 3 weeks? :wink: :wink:
or found a good solution for A2DP?

Sory for your (and our) troubles. Success.

[mikejackson]

Please restart SRS thread!!!

[gabbaid]

Is this ROM working on XDA 1?? Still have 1 and would like to give it a try with this ROM

[Gnuig]

Did you guys loose my 2.341 post?! :o And I have no backup... :evil: Arrggg. Oh, well, it is never too late to rewrite all that good stuff, I never knew I wrote. :wink: :lol:

Also, I just wanted to send my regards... although (actually) not being so active lately, it is a good excuse for getting back up to speed :lol:

BACK-UP to speed (... get it :) )

Cheer up, we are all human

G.

[ednap]

I'm just glad the site is back up and we are underway again. KNow you guys did your best and the forums will catch up again as there are still plenty of people willing to contribute.

It's too good a site to be set back by this little misshap.

[md2020]

Back Up?


thanks!


KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

and happy good times (Holidays)

[collins199820]

ah those were the days two bloody years ago :-( when this site was just a few of us!! look at it now my have u grown!!!