[Solved]Missing topics and posts

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:31 pm

There are some topics and posts missing from earlier today, after there seemed to be an "outage" of the board.

Are they going to return to us?

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

At approximately 11 AM IST this morning, the hardware node of our main server failed. We were able to successfully bring it back online about 30 minutes later. At that time, it appeared to be a failed drive in the RAID array, caused a slight pause in IO, causing the server to kernel panic. We replaced the drive, and brought the site back online. While looking further into the issue, the server crashed again. But we couldnt bring it back again within a reasonable timeframe and hence we have to restore the entire site and database from the last successful backup available. The backup we restored to was actually taken at 10 AM IST today, so we lost all the posts made after 9:35 AM IST today.

Akatsukami · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:06 pm

The same is true of the Beginners' and Students' board, yes?

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:28 pm

Thanks for the info.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:58 pm

I don't know if it is just me, but several times, including this morning, things have been "slower" since yesterday, both sites. Last night around midnight/midnight +10 UK time, I got the "send an SMS don't telephone" message on here while posting. My post actually arrived but I never got the "successful post" screen before I gave up.

PeterHolland · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 1:29 pm

Bill, its not just you.

Bad response time, not connected errors etc.

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Yes, we are facing pocket dropouts may be due to the new RAID array. We have planned to replace the entire system this weekend.

PeterHolland · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 1:35 pm

Ok, thanks.

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Now I'm having sad/scared flashbacks to the demise of one of my old favorite boards

"I don't believe it but the board is working after moving it to another server. I thought I was going to have to start a new one but somehow, it seems to be okay. - bre"

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

No. It wont happen here at any cost. We are not just to stay here.

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

We are on the new server now. If you can see this post you have successfully migrated to our new server.

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Knows Issues:

The site loads slow due to DNS resolving issue, but it will be normal in 24 hours
Search function may not work, it will be indexed in 48 hours
Some attachments may not exist, it will be solved in 2 hours

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

The Old server is running at: 64.57.246.166/index.php

If you post anything on the Old server(due to DNS Propagation Delay) it will be discarded hereafter.

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

Search Function: solved
Attachments problem: Solved
Server Migration: Solved for all Registered Users and still working to migrate some guest users: 64.57.246.166/viewonline.php

Please let me know the status of the new server.

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:11 am

Normally when i opened a post with the new indicator and after reading went back with the browser back button that indicator had disappeared.
Not now anymore.

Edit : only after i post something, like above.

rajesh · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 11:15 am

We are all set and ready to go with this new ship.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:56 pm

Thanks for keeping us posted.

Well done,