Good News and Bad News concerning the missing posts

[BOZ]

an ETA may not even be possible?

 

[Michael Morris]

an ETA may not even be possible?

Having never done this before (restore from binary) under these circumstances (nearest backup 5+ months old) I don't even know if it CAN be done, let alone give an ETA. At this point I say we have a 50/50 shot at getting the stuff back.

 

[buzz]

Well, I just started a sign-up thread for an ENworld Gameday that's happening in mid-June. I'd kinda hate to lose it. But, as long as we get some advance warning before we lose everything again...

 

[deltadave]

why does the theme for "Mission Impossible" keep running thru my head as I read this thread?

 

[RangerWickett]

Mission Impossible? Fshaw, you're optimistic. I've got the music from the chase sequence on the freeway in The Matrix Reloaded playing. The agents are Google. The freeway is the internet superhighway. The ghost twins are, um, . . . evil Rastafarians, who, like, crashed out database. Spoony is obviously Neo, who will come in and save us. EN World is Trinity, the Keymaker is the database, and Morpheus? That's Morrus, with his bad-ass katana-uzi combination.

 

[el-remmen]

Having simply accepted that we lost 5 months of stuff and moved on, I only worry this might be more trouble than it is worth and potentially dangerous. . .

 

[Michael Morris]

Recovery will be done into a seperate database. If that is accomplished I'll worry about how to merge posts back in. It may be that we'll need to set up a special archive for the lost posts seperate from the main site. Whatever solution is acheived though I'll try to make sure disruption is minimal.

 

[Jdvn1]

Cool, thanks for the update!

I'm really interested in how all of this is coming along, eventhough I know very little if anything about the technical aspects.

 

[johndaw16]

Well all I got to say is good luck with the recovery. I for one think that its a great idea and would much rather see the 5 months that we lost come back in any way. It can't hurt to try, and what's been posted in the past few days seems to be a small compared to the amount of info. posted in the previous 5 months.

 

[Steverooo]

Thanks, Spoonster! Great luck!