mawby Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Due to a disastrous attempt at upgrading the forum software I have had to restore the site from this mornings backup. That means any new posts, threads or Pms created since 4am will have been lost. I did do a backup before the restore so anything vital can be retrieved if needed, for example the trader renewal surveys which I created this morning. Doing the restore was a last resort. I had removed nearly everything from the site in an attempt to identify the problem and the only non-standard things left were the garage and itrader. VBulletin support were not willing to investigate the problem unless I removed those too, but given the sheer amount of data involved with those plugins I decided it was better to restore the site for now and to look at the problems again later using a test system. I can only apologise for this inconvenience. We have never had an upgrade fail before and I certainly didn’t spot anything in the upgrades list-of-changes which looked like it would cause a problem. mawby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevansio Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Can calender votes be restored??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 bummers I dont have to go back to work for 12 hours do I? cos all i was doing at work today was reading posts! lol Wheres Marty McFly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Thank God the arcade hi-scores are intact! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 My post count will have suffered massively..... H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-NEMIE Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 respect to you mate a tough job, and not an easy one (all ive been doing today is restoring sql databases, so i know it sucks) regards jamie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 So we've lost my post where I cured Aids, solved the US/Iraq situation, the method of gaining 100bhp with a £10 mod and the way to earn a million without leaving the house. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 Can calender votes be restored???Calendar votes will not be very easy to restore. I will take a look but it will have to wait until tomorrow as I'm getting evil eyes from Tigger for spending time on here when I should have been sorting out something for us to eat tonight! (Takeaway now me thinks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevansio Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 No worries man, I bet the last thing you want to be doing on a Friday is messing about with this, get some food (and some beer ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Oh well, all that good advice lost forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Ahh that explains the insane PM situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Yeah, had a big feeling of deja vu when looking at mine before seeing this thread Gaz. Ahh that explains the insane PM situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kslb Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Yeah, had a big feeling of deja vu when looking at mine before seeing this thread Gaz. Ignore the PM Gaz all is now clear, thank god I still have my sanity....just! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knight-racer Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 oh dear.. i lost quite some important information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Did I post anything interesting today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Did I post anything interesting today? How can we tell you?! Are the renewal survey results saved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 How can we tell you?! You might have remembered a nugget of brilliance.... all I remember is the religion one, I'll post that again later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I recall some chat, but not much about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class One Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Are the renewal survey results saved? No, it would appear not and it'll take a bit of Mawb's time to sort it again. So bear with us. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Class One Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Did I post anything interesting today? Should we start a poll to answer that question, or just leave you to make your own mind up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Did I post anything interesting today? Seems unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranz Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Did I post anything interesting today? Sorry, who are you??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted May 12, 2007 Author Share Posted May 12, 2007 I made a backup prior to the restore and the new renewal surveys are in that. Once I've extracted them from the 7GB backup I will restore the surveys and put back the links to them. Hopefully I can get this done this afternoon or this evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted May 12, 2007 Author Share Posted May 12, 2007 oh dear.. i lost quite some important information. If you tell me what this information is I will attempt to retrieve it from the backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Ahhh, I thought I was going mad then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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