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Catastrophic system failure
Published on October 25, 2005 By Draginol In Blogging

Last night the master database became corrupt and one of the machines had a catastrophic failure.  I kind of "perfect storm" of failure -- two bad things on two seperate servers.  For a few hours, JoeUser ceased to exist. It was the worst case scenario.

However, LUCKILY, we do daily backups on all your blogs. So this incident can at least provide some assurance that all your hard work, your thoughts and written record are being treated with respect and care.

It does mean, however, that everything from yesterday is lost.  Which is ironic since I wrote a number of blogs yesterday.

Update: Most articles from yesterday have been restored thanks to T-man!


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on Oct 25, 2005
They are MS all the way, sushik.
on Oct 25, 2005
One quick question. I just recently joined a blog group. When I attempt to type an article, it lets me pick which one I want to type for, however it will not allow me to proceed to "Step 2" of the process. Can you help me out? Thanks!


Good save by the way
on Oct 25, 2005
wow, thanks for getting it back up! Er, I mean good job guys!
on Oct 25, 2005
*sigh*....see, I love you Stardick guys.  All of you.  The chicks too.  But, I especially love T-Man...in a totally plationic way, of course.
on Oct 25, 2005
*sigh*....see, I love you Stardick guys. All of you. The chicks too. But, I especially love T-Man...in a totally plationic way, of course.


I get first hug!
on Oct 25, 2005
Thank you...
on Oct 26, 2005

Stardick

I hope you meant "Stardock" ...not the first time we've been called that, though.......

on Oct 26, 2005

Freudian slip, perhaps?

Yeah, 'cause I aint gettin' any!

I hope you meant "Stardock" ...not the first time we've been called that, though.......

Yeah, I did......

on Oct 26, 2005
sounds like you need to add a feature to the Blog Navigator, where it keeps your submitted blogs for a week before deleting them from the local hard drive, so users can then just resubmit an article if something happens to the server.

Of course, this is a worst case situation and it doesn't happen often, so... you probably don't need that feature. But then again, it might just sell more copies...
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