Downtime Today (29th July 2009)

[PranK]

Hi Jenna, was a hardware failure. Check the announcement.

[08r3308]

same here , i notices some of latest posts are gone as well.

maybe they restored to earlier state because of a problem?

[KR4-GTR]

Sorry to hear! Thanks for letting us know what happened!

Edited July 29, 2009 by KR4-GTR

[dan_the_man]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/To...in-forum23.html

[iamhe77]

yeah, looks like the 28th never happened lol

this also includes PM's. eg. i received a PM today, as new, that I had already recieved on the 27th. And no PM's from the 28th exist.

no complaints here. just keeping you guys informed.

Yep, and the evening of the 27th as well I think!

I received 3 PM's (email notifications), but there are none here.

Just wondering if PM's and posts will be re-instated.

I know you guys would have been onto it for a while now, so no complaints... just curious if the posts/PM's are still on a disc somewhere or are they lost?

[jrm]

Yeah, second on the lost PMs. Which is a real annoyance as someone had PM'd me back about getting some second-hand parts, and know I have no idea who it was now

[jrm]

Hiya,

Forums have been down for me for most of the day - I was unable to resolve the skylinesaustralia.com domain; Neither of the nameservers appeared to be reachable. A traceroute wasn't suceeding either. Bypassing DNS, I tried telnetting to port 80 on 208.69.126.31 (though this appears to be one of the DNS servers!), and this failed too suggesting it was more than a DNS failure.

I'm guessing either some sort of server failure or a routing issue from Australia? I tried from 3 different IP ranges (home, two from work) and still no luck. Are you guys aware of any issues? Do you guys report on those issues on the forums somewhere so I can not bother you in future?

jenna

[jrm]

Thanks - didn't see any announcements or i wouldnt have bothered!

[SimonR32]

just to let you guys know... the database must be a lot older than a "few hours"

seems like at least 1 if not 2 days of posts have been lost

[Munkyb0y]

yeah, looks like the 28th never happened lol

this also includes PM's. eg. i received a PM today, as new, that I had already recieved on the 27th. And no PM's from the 28th exist.

no complaints here. just keeping you guys informed.

Edited July 29, 2009 by Munkyb0y

[quarkgun]

Also seems that the search is broken

[n15m0]

lol...I was just about to blast someone for asking the same question yesterday, today when it was answered already...

[R31Nismoid]

Just wondering if PM's and posts will be re-instated.

Anything that is missing - wont be returning.

As per the announcement some features will slowly come back online as things return to normal... however the core stuff PMs/Posts/Threads if they are not there now; have gone bye bye's.

The backup by my rough checking shows the last posts were from approx 4am-5am on the 28th being thats the last post i could see upon the restore.

In effect most of the 28th went missing. So a bit more than a few hours, but less than a day's worth overall.

Shit happens unfortunately guys, no need to get too worked up over it

Im lucky all the SAU-SA members setup/creation work i did was still there hehe, that would have been a solid 4hrs of config changes out the window!

[PranK]

Yeah sorry guys, a bit more was lost than initially suspected.

Also, the search indexes are being rebuilt, it will likely be back online tonight or tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your patience.

[iamhe77]

heh, I don't know how much work and effort goes in, but I imagine it is a fair amount.

Good work getting things more or less up to speed in a relatively short amount of time guys.

Can I ask that the clock is fixed up though?

It is about 4hours behind.

[PranK]

hrmmm, a whole day to restore 70gig backup???

So this server SAU is on does not contain fiber raid then?

Bout 4hrs actually.

3 Servers, RAID 10 on each.

[jrm]

Thanks for your dedication & hard work on this, PranK.

As a sysadmin/netadmin myself for work, and having hosted car forums on my personal servers in the past - I know how effort goes into managing/maintaining all this stuff. Keep it up

[JJay]

hrmmm, a whole day to restore 70gig backup???

So this server SAU is on does not contain fiber raid then?

[JJay]

2gig, 4gig, etc fiber raid???

and what servers are these?

and what are you backing up to? external server or a san or tapes?

Edited July 31, 2009 by JJay

[PranK]

2gig, 4gig, etc fiber raid???

and what servers are these?

and what are you backing up to? external server or a san or tapes?

Um, why all the questions?

For the record, backups are now taken 4 hourly.