editor Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Those of you who tried to visit HAIF this morning noticed the "Closed for maintenance" sign on the front door. Things should be OK now.It looks like the HAIF posts database developed a small corruption on the 16th. As more people added more messages it got worse. This is possibly also the root of the problems with the search function that some people have reported.When I tried to fix the problem on the 17th, it only got worse because I didn't shut the board down first. So people were trying to post messages while the computer was trying to fix itself.The technical support people who maintain the server for us managed to fix the database. In the process, though, some posts were lost. I'm not sure how many, but it doesn't appear to be a lot.Please PM me if you continue to encounter errors. If any more crop up, I'll roll the board back to our last good backup, which was on the 15th, and everything should be good. But, of course, we'll lose everything posted since then. But at least this underscores the value of making regular backups. We have three backup methods for HAIF -- nightly, weekly, monthly -- that are all stored in different places. I may implement an every 6 or 12 hours backup, too, for when things like this happen again.Again -- right now the most important thing is for people to give HAIF a workout, and let me know about any problems. If we have to roll back, I'd rather do it sooner than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 i noticed one odd thing - on the "search error" thread, on the search listing, it says "Yesterday, 05:31 PMLast post by: editor"but in the actual thread, TJones was the last to post, at 5:37 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 I expect there will be a few more of those minor errors found around the board. Notice anything else wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I expect there will be a few more of those minor errors found around the board. Notice anything else wrong? All of my wonderful insights could be missing, the horror! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 All of my wonderful insights could be missing, the horror! :closedeyes: yes, the horror... Editor - I noticed a few slip ups yesterday, I typed in a post, but when I clicked the button, an error message showed up. Perhaps thats just the usual 'error' that was expected with the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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