Given the weirdness here while I wasn't around, wanted to remind you all to book-mark the emergency back-up forum I set up a while back when we thought ACCBoards was going away:
Emergency Back-Up Forum
I believe most of you created accounts but I have it set up so you can post as a guest if you can't remember your log-in. Just drop by and post if you have a chance as a reminder it is there.
nice one don.....
go heels
my experience with wfnz online is that they do NOT stream the Carolina games ... just their normal programing or whatever is on 1660.
I've caught a couple of games on FNZ, but maybe it was football.
I can't get any of the links just above to work for me as far as football broadcast is concerned.
NYCfan,
It looks like your hosting service has suffered a major meltdown. I was going to go over to "vent" about the fate of the baseball and golf boards and peruse some of the other ongoing threads. Oh, well, guess I need to bill some time instead.
Congrats to all you heels on the win over the Irish and birthday wishes to Karthi.
There are some messages there about the site being brought back "up." They seem to be making progress.
Sorry for the long post
Server 6 (InvisionFree & ZetaBoards) will be offline for at most an hour tonight to have a hardware component replaced. This will improve page load times and allow for conversions on Server 6 to be completed more quickly.
Brandon Today, 1:52 AM Post #2
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We regret to inform the users of boards on Server 6 that the Datacenter that was performing the hardware replacement on Server 6 used the wrong hardware which led to the hard drives on the server being erased. We are still evaluating whether the drives were completely erased. Regardless, we will be restoring board data from backups stored offsite. Our initial estimate is that we will be able to completely restore InvisionFree boards to a state about two days ago. All board data will be recovered up to that point, including file uploads and post attachments. The recovery of ZetaBoards boards will not be as recent. We will definitely be able to at least restore those boards to the point at which they converted to ZetaBoards.
While we are still waiting on the Datacenter to provide us with a replacement machine, I would like to give a preliminary timeline of what to expect...
- We should have the server software rebuilt and configured by this evening at the latest.
- InvisionFree boards should be recovered approximately 6 hours after the server is fully rebuilt.
- ZetaBoards boards will go through their conversion process from InvisionFree again.
For those of you with boards converting to ZetaBoards on other servers we will continue with those conversions, but will pause them as necessary and reasonable if it is needed to help with the setup and restore of Server 6.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and we will do our best to get everything up and running as soon as possible. Please bear with us while we work to resolve this unfortunate event.
- The Zathyus Network team.
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We have already started a series of short, medium, and long term goals related to this incident.
Short Term:
Bring Server 6 back online so it can display a message to all users trying to visit it so they know what is going on.
Rebuild and setup Server 6 so it is ready to receive recovered backup board data.
Restore all ZetaBoards and InvisionFree boards on the server.
Investigate ways to recover more data for ZetaBoards boards.
Medium Term:
Evaluate the possibility of the drives' data being recovered despite being erased.
Evaluate and implement options to prevent datacenter mistakes from happening in the future. (Since we know how important your boards are to you and your members, whenever we are in full control of a situation we are able to take extra care with your boards.)
Improve the backup systems for ZetaBoards and InvisionFree.
Long Term:
Further improvements to the backup systems for ZetaBoards and InvisionFree. (Reaching our goal of full recovery of boards to within at most 1 hour for most causes of data loss and not more than 1 day for almost any remaining causes of data loss)
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We have confirmed the availability of the complete backup data for InvisionFree boards on server 6.
The replacement server is currently being setup so it displays a message to all users trying to visit it so they know what is going on.
Brian Today, 9:10 AM Post #5
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We're currently in the process of rebuilding and configuring the server. We'll provide more details as soon as they are available.
- The Zathyus Network team
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Still down...must be tied to Wall Street somehow
It's back, but missing at least one rick post, I b'lee.
biggie banned thread is gone...