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<blockquote data-quote="Twin Rose" data-source="post: 2818624" data-attributes="member: 2765">There have indeed been other backups, but those had some problems as well.&nbsp; Backing up the entire database takes something like 2 gigabytes worth of space - approximately 20 hours to download even at high speed.&nbsp; Obviously, this is something that can't be done every week.&nbsp; In the past, a backup every 3 months or so seems to have done the trick - but this time, there's been problems for the last month or so with the database.&nbsp; The most recent backup was, in fact, also a bit corrupt - and I suspect it could lead to another crash in a couple weeks or so.Also remember that the previous admin left us recently, and I'm still rather new at the gig - if assiduous in it.&nbsp; What donations go for is the hosting and bandwidth.&nbsp; Even still I'm planning to donate one of my other hard drives to the server so we have more free space for more regular backups.&nbsp; (If I can manage it, i'll be trying to keep weekly backups instead).In the next few months, I'd prefer to buy a very large hard drive to put in down there.&nbsp; Hopefully, that means through money gained at the EN World GameStore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Twin Rose, post: 2818624, member: 2765"] There have indeed been other backups, but those had some problems as well. Backing up the entire database takes something like 2 gigabytes worth of space - approximately 20 hours to download even at high speed. Obviously, this is something that can't be done every week. In the past, a backup every 3 months or so seems to have done the trick - but this time, there's been problems for the last month or so with the database. The most recent backup was, in fact, also a bit corrupt - and I suspect it could lead to another crash in a couple weeks or so. Also remember that the previous admin left us recently, and I'm still rather new at the gig - if assiduous in it. What donations go for is the hosting and bandwidth. Even still I'm planning to donate one of my other hard drives to the server so we have more free space for more regular backups. (If I can manage it, i'll be trying to keep weekly backups instead). In the next few months, I'd prefer to buy a very large hard drive to put in down there. Hopefully, that means through money gained at the EN World GameStore. [/QUOTE]

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