Twin-X Posted October 29, 2009 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
nILS Posted October 29, 2009 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:
Gridracer Posted October 29, 2009 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
flo Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Don't worry about it! Sh*t happens... Keep up the good work!
philetaylor Posted October 30, 2009 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
j00lz Posted October 30, 2009 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:
TheAncientOne Posted October 30, 2009 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
lylehaze Posted October 30, 2009 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
Wilba Posted October 30, 2009 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:
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