Downloads maintenance - possible database corruption happening.

[Dazz]

Hell Everyone,

 

My apologies, but I've had to take downloads offline for today. Running into a problem that is possibly causing database corruption.  I have a couple different support groups currently investigating.  As of right now they said to disable just the downloads, but may have to take everything offline if necessary.  They are having me perform a full backup of the site and database, so it may be a little while.  Hopefully they can figure it out quickly... Sorry.

 

- Dazz

[RabidTribble]

You are in Haltom?!!! I'm in Sachse (Garland). Glad to see a DFW guy as admin!

[Dazz]

7 minutes ago, RabidTribble said:

You are in Haltom?!!! I'm in Sachse (Garland). Glad to see a DFW guy as admin!

Cool another DFW peep!  Welcome.

Not sure if you are into real pins or not, but DFW has a great pinball league.  Our next league/tournament is on home turf in Keller/Watauga area in my buddies cave on June 6. Check out DFW Pinball League, News & Events on Facebook.  All players of any skill are welcome.

[bdaley6509]

Donated today.  Thanks for the awesome site.  

[Dazz]

1 minute ago, bdaley6509 said:

Donated today.  Thanks for the awesome site.  

 

Thanks for the sub. Greatly appreciated!  Sorry the downloads section is currently offline right now. I'd rather have it offline for the day than loose any of our data or file corruption... 

[cfhdrew]

Thanks for the update.

[RajoJoey]

I hope, to see the dl-section soon.

[Dazz]

9 hours ago, RajoJoey said:

I hope, to see the dl-section soon.

Me too... Me too... Still working on it.  Just got off the phone with support.  I think we are making progress... so hopefully not too much longer.

[Stemage]

Thanks for all you do. Wanted to donate but couldn't find a link, so I subbed Silver Tier instead. Cheers!

[Dazz]

Well... Good news... We've determined the problem. Bad news... It may not be fixed until Saturday afternoon. A major bug was found, it caused the system to loose roughly 250gb of data... Don't worry; I had a complete backup and nothing will be lost.

 

Now I get the joy of re-uploading nearly 1tb of files at 20mpbs. This will max out my upload speeds for roughly 2-3 days while everything re-uploaded.

[Wylte]

27 minutes ago, Dazz said:

Well... Good news... We've determined the problem. Bad news... It may not be fixed until Saturday afternoon. A major bug was found, it caused the system to loose roughly 250gb of data... Don't worry; I had a complete backup and nothing will be lost.

 

Now I get the joy of re-uploading nearly 1tb of files at 20mpbs. This will max out my upload speeds for roughly 2-3 days while everything re-uploaded.

Sounds like it would be faster to drive the data over and plug it in yourself 🤣

[tabascoman77]

Thanks for the update, @Dazz. I lost an 8 TB hard drive with a ton of my most important files on it so now I have everything on a mirrored RAID farm and have unlimited cloud space I just purchased so I know what it's like to lose it all and then slooooooowly upload everything.

 

You're doing a great job.

[senseless]

Tuff luck, but luckily your on it Dazz :). Thanks for all your time and effort again and again and again. 

10 bucks of beer coming your way, enjoy!

[Dazz]

This is still ongoing... we fixed one issue, but encountered a different problem now.  I have multiple engineers and database admins looking into this and helping out.

[tealk]

No problem Dazz, take the time you need for resolve it ... Thank you for your hard work for us and for the news. 🍺😉

[FuzzySilk]

Thanks for the update and all your hard work.  Even if you get the data uploaded I imagine you would need to reindex the DB otherwise all the links in the forum would be off.  No idea how you would go about handling that. 

[mraaron]

Thanks for the update and hard work

 

[tabascoman77]

Sorry to hear that, Dazz! I hope the company hosting your site has refunded your money for all this!

[QuinrodD]

thanks for the update, didn't know dl's were down and was wondering why all links didn't work until I found this info. Keep up the great work!

[JLR2021]

Appreciate the updates and all your hard work getting this resolved.  Thank you!

[pacboy]

Merci beaucoup DAZZ pour tous ce que vous faite pour nous et je vous souhaite bon courage à vous et aux personnes qui vous aide à régler ces problèmes. 🤞

[movieguy]

Thanks Dazz.  I am sure this is frustrating.  I appreciate all your work on the site.

[World-of-Virtual-pinball]

Thanks for the update Dazz, take as much time as you need better to spend a few extra days making sure its all good, i know what its like yo have to reorganize i had a 2TB drive fail that had a collection of stuff from other drives and took me ages to sort it, so i feel your frustration. Hang on in there bro it will all come good.

[Shannon]

Appreciate all the hard work that goes into maintaining this site!

[Manbearpig]

Thank you guys for all you do. Luckily this community is helpful and willing to share with each other.