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And...we are back up and running.

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And...we are back up and running.
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And...we are back up and running.
July 25, 2026 at 6:45 pm
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July 25, 2026 at 6:46 pm
Send many thanks to Tiberius who came to the rescue...again.
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July 25, 2026 at 7:19 pm
Glad the goat wasn’t wasted. 😜

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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 25, 2026 at 7:50 pm
Given the past history of this forum and statements Tiberius made, I didn't think it would go away without warning but it was getting scary. Glad to see it back up.
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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 25, 2026 at 8:11 pm
Basically one of the backup processes borked and stopped deleting old backup files, and also filled a log with errors. The combination of both of those caused the server to run out of diskspace, and then the database crashed.

Ordinarily, deleting the old files, clearing out the log, and restarting the database would have worked.

However once I did the first two, the server failed to start. Due to the crash, some data got corrupted. I got Claude Code to write some recovery scripts, which worked to first extract all the good data to a backup, then restore that data to a new database server. Thankfully the corrupted data wasn't actually anything critical, so I don't believe we lost anything of value.

Even if we had, we still had the last backup from the day before the database crashed (FYI, the forum gets backed up locally every morning). I designed some redundancies into the system, haha. But I'll work with the admins to figure out a plan going forward since we do need to upgrade some parts of the server in the future.
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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 26, 2026 at 12:29 am
Glad it's fixed, I'm currently traveling and thought it was maybe a problem with the hotel WiFi or maybe foreign phone systems 😃
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July 26, 2026 at 5:48 pm
(July 25, 2026 at 8:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Basically one of the backup processes borked and stopped deleting old backup files, and also filled a log with errors. The combination of both of those caused the server to run out of diskspace, and then the database crashed.

Ordinarily, deleting the old files, clearing out the log, and restarting the database would have worked.

However once I did the first two, the server failed to start. Due to the crash, some data got corrupted. I got Claude Code to write some recovery scripts, which worked to first extract all the good data to a backup, then restore that data to a new database server. Thankfully the corrupted data wasn't actually anything critical, so I don't believe we lost anything of value.

Even if we had, we still had the last backup from the day before the database crashed (FYI, the forum gets backed up locally every morning). I designed some redundancies into the system, haha. But I'll work with the admins to figure out a plan going forward since we do need to upgrade some parts of the server in the future.

In my head, that sounded like ‘argle bargle worble whoosh’, but many thanks all the same.

Boru
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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 27, 2026 at 3:49 am
So, who am I holding accountable?

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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 27, 2026 at 5:14 am
Sorry, I was not in a position to do much, I have been at sea. When I get back home in a month, I'll work on some monitoring to ensure we don't get caught with our collective pants down again.
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RE: And...we are back up and running.
July 27, 2026 at 6:17 am
(July 27, 2026 at 3:49 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: So, who am I holding accountable?

Well, Nay_Sayer admitted to tripping over the power plug and getting the wires tangled. Do with this info what you will. Wink

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