Twin-X Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Dear members, Well it must have occured to you that i am trying to make a transition from the old forum to the new software. So what happend this time? The last thing i needed to fix were the redirects of the ld forum to the new one. A very nice redirect script was made by the guys from invision. However this did not work if the new forum was put under it's old directory forum. So i had to change it back. This happened tuesday. On the admin page i was told to remove the conversion folder. However i uninstalled the application. Fault no.1 The redirect script uses tables in the database that had a nice redirect indexing bla bla data in it. I did not knew that until i looked at the error logs when trying a redirect. So i had to restore those tables. Luckily i had a backup. (midibox is backupped every saturday 3gb uncompressed) I placed the database backup to the midiboxwebsite. Fault no.2 Instead of backing up the database before my change i dumped the backup from saturday to the forum. Now i made the forum loose 5 days of data. :sad: I feel absolutly terrible about this. I cannot fix this and it is not fixable. I am ready for the consequences as i take full responsibility. My apoligies, Jeffry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 MIDIbox has been around for 10 years, what are 5 days compared to that? I am sure we'll repost everything that was even remotely significant in no time :ike: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gridracer Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Head up!! :) Regarding all the work and time you spend for all of us, I think there is no need to feel sorry for anything! Keep up your great work Gridracer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flo Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Don't worry about it! Sh*t happens... Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philetaylor Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Don't worry about it Jeffry. You have done a massive amount of work to make this forum great I think we can allow you this one. I have done similar things in the past (in fact MUCH MUCH worse), I know that sinking feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you realise your mistake only too well. In the early 90's I deleted the live orders file for the countries largest wine and spirits wholesaler instead of the order archive, we lost a whole days orders and all orders had to be taken manually for about 2 days while it was rebuilt. For some reason they didn't renew my contract, I never knew why....... Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j00lz Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ah well I guess that explains why I couldn't find some stuff I recently posted... :tongue: Don't worry about it, it can all be replaced. No money was lost, and nobody got injured. Now I'm off to see if Google archived those blog posts I made... :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAncientOne Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 We've all pulled stunts like this: I once put the live EPROMS for a project in the eraser and the clean ones in the copier..... it cost me a bit more than 5 days. You do a tremendous amount keeping this forum on it's feet. It was a minor error under stress, that's all. I think you are owed massive props for actually migrating the forum to a new format. Best wishes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 So.. all those horrible things I wish I had never posted.. Suddenly don't exist anymore?? Dude, you ROCK!! It's all good. :-) LyleHaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Don't feel too bad about it, Twin-x... the only really important things lost were my incredibly interesting blog posts :bye: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boops Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Don't worry about it . :console: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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