RF Generation Down?

Post by **Crabmaster2000** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:09 am

Its back in business now!!

http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/site-n ... s-2029.php

Post by **AppleQueso** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:09 am

oh they had to restore from an old backup... guess that explains why I only have two games now...

ugh, re-adding everything is going to be such a pain...

Post by **o.pwuaioc** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:13 am

AppleQueso wrote:oh they had to restore from an old backup... guess that explains why I only have two games now...

ugh, re-adding everything is going to be such a pain...

Yep. I wasted 2 hours adding half of my collection. :/ Although, truth be told, it was fun looking at everything again.

Post by **BurningDoom** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:16 am

AppleQueso wrote:oh they had to restore from an old backup... guess that explains why I only have two games now...

ugh, re-adding everything is going to be such a pain...

Except for the last week or so while they were down, everything is up to date on my profile. Strange.

Post by **dsheinem** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:33 am

Bloggers, I posted this guide to restoring lost posts: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/dshei ... s-2033.php

Post by **gtmtnbiker** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:55 am

I took a quick glance at the website and it appears that they restored the site using a backup from 2009! Wow, they didn't have a good backup strategy. It's important to have a good backup plan and more importantly, to test the backups (by doing a restore) periodically to make sure you're not backing up garbage. Hopefully it's a lesson learned for them.

Post by **dsheinem** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:42 pm

gtmtnbiker wrote:I took a quick glance at the website and it appears that they restored the site using a backup from 2009!

Read it again. The backup is from December 2011.

Edit: looks like the forums are 2009, though

Post by **o.pwuaioc** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:04 pm

dsheinem wrote:Bloggers, I posted this guide to restoring lost posts: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/dshei ... s-2033.php

There's the Way Back Machine as well.

Post by **dsheinem** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:06 pm

o.pwuaioc wrote:
dsheinem wrote:Bloggers, I posted this guide to restoring lost posts: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/dshei ... s-2033.php
There's the Way Back Machine as well.

good call!

Link: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

EDIT: The Wayback Machine doesn't seem to have more recent posts archived yet. Newest for me is late 2010, newest for the site is mid-2011.

Post by **o.pwuaioc** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:19 am

o.pwuaioc wrote:
AppleQueso wrote:oh they had to restore from an old backup... guess that explains why I only have two games now...

ugh, re-adding everything is going to be such a pain...
Yep. I wasted 2 hours adding half of my collection. :/ Although, truth be told, it was fun looking at everything again.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/site-news/We-May-Still-be-Having-Hiccups-2037.php wrote:MySQL did not play nice tonight. We learned a valuable lesson about our server and trying to optimize mySQL tables. Long story short, don't do it unless you shut down the site.

So, the forum got screwed up... again. If you are affected by the forum screw up, I must extend my apologies. But, the forum is back up, using a backup from yesterday to restore order to the messages and topics.

We are very much trying to keep the site from doing this. We are doing daily backups to ensure all keeps going well. It pains us when this occurs. We all put so much time and effort into this site to make it our community. We will get this site back in tip top shape. The hackers may have taken us down, but we are not out. We will get through this.

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