What Gives?

[exxonv]

I posted several reviews that I wrote (they were removed).

I am no longer allowed to see the Trading Post.

My information in my profile is gone.. Avatar, pics, everything...

I have no private messages explaining what I may have done to warrant this..

Can someone please let me know what happened???

[exxonv]

Weird, profile is back, postings are back, but I'm a 30-day probationary user again...

[cstone]

Have you PM's a mod with your questions? They are pretty reasonable and responsive given the huge salaries for the work they do here.

[relichunter]

Yeah, sometime between 12pm & 2:30pm all my postings and PMs from at least the last week dissappeared...and my avatar is back to the old one.

[Omicron]

We've been having server problems again, and are cutting over to new hardware. I suspect it's related to that, but let me ask the server admins and see what is going on.

[relichunter]

We've been having server problems again, and are cutting over to new hardware. I suspect it's related to that, but let me ask the server admins and see what is going on.

thanks!

[exxonv]

Okay, no worries, sounds like some technical issues vs. me breaking any rules

Thanks!

[spleify]

Things are being worked on and being set up for new equipment. The current hamsters we have are getting old and tired.

Bear with us as you guys always do. We will make through this one also. Nothing will be as bad as the great server crash of 2012..

[J]

Ok, the whole story:

We had our primary mirror go down two weeks ago, and the site has been running on the number 2 mirror since then. We got the primary back online today, and it seems that not everything synchronized and got caught back up as it should. There was corruption in the binary logs, which are kept to catch synchronization back up to current time when one mirror goes offline and then is put back online. This coruption made it unable to sync two random days worth of data over the last week.

So, depending on which server you were connected to, you either had all the newest stuff, or might have been missing things from those couple of random days where the data didn't synchronize over. Which server you connect to is pseudo-random.

I'm doing the pain staking process of manually syncing each table of the database from the #2 mirror to primary, so that I can do it with the site live. The easier way would involve shutting the site down for a bit, which nobody wants, and probably me staying up to do it at 2AM when there isn't much traffic, which I don't want.

Over the next couple of hours you should see anything missing start coming back. Please be patient.

Yes, we have FOUR copies of nightly snapshots of ALL of the site data, nothing huge will be lost again like the great crash (one on each mirror in CO and PA, one to a backup server and another to my office backup system).

[Omicron]

Yay, J! And J! (Justin and James, our server guys)