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Welcome back everyone. We suffered a fatal database crash trying to update software.
The data in the forum was nearly six years old and I had done so many customization in the old software that carried over through the years that somehow the coding got crossed and caused major damage. At least that is the thought.
We tried restoring from several backup databases, but each one gave the same result. Oddly enough the software update went fine on the test site, so we tried moving the test site here to the live site and soon as it went live it crashed and burned too.
I do still have all the data in a backup taken from June 22nd right before the crash. I have a developer that is going to try to recover the data to be migrated back into the forum at a later date, but no estimate on time or if he will even be successful. So for now, this was the best I could do.
It's devastating to me that this has happened and I apologize for the catastrophe. I hope we can build back and continue the fellowship I have enjoyed so much through the years.
The data in the forum was nearly six years old and I had done so many customization in the old software that carried over through the years that somehow the coding got crossed and caused major damage. At least that is the thought.
We tried restoring from several backup databases, but each one gave the same result. Oddly enough the software update went fine on the test site, so we tried moving the test site here to the live site and soon as it went live it crashed and burned too.
I do still have all the data in a backup taken from June 22nd right before the crash. I have a developer that is going to try to recover the data to be migrated back into the forum at a later date, but no estimate on time or if he will even be successful. So for now, this was the best I could do.
It's devastating to me that this has happened and I apologize for the catastrophe. I hope we can build back and continue the fellowship I have enjoyed so much through the years.