Database Corruption 7th Sept

[Pete]

Hi All,

Anyone trying to access the site early this morning will have noticed the site went down. This was due to a corruption of the Forum database.

I've done a recover on it, and it appears to be back, but I can't be 100% sure whether any messages were lost during the database repair process. If you posted late last night, double check!

Pete

Just curious but how frequently do you backup?

[Pete]

I keep a local backup of all the code, and occassionally back up the datafiles. If disaster hit the ISP, I could recover the site; but there would almost certainly be a loss of some messages.

Pete

Is that why the active users record has reset to 7th Sept?

[Pete]

Ooo yes... hadn't noticed that, but it seems quite likely.

Pete

[Nottingham Nick]

Don't know if there have been problems tonight (Sat 10th), but I couldn't get on the site at all for a couple of hours. 8pm - 10pm ish.

Nick