At this time I'm uploading a snapshot I made on December 29th. As far as is known that was the last time the database was backed up. :brood:

After the upload completes (at or around 6 AM EST) I'll need to configure it to get the review section to work properly.  Then I have the lovely fun of rebuilding the search index (the snapshot having been taken before the index was recompiled).

Hopefully EN World will be back up in some form by the morning and will be up as recovered as she can be within a week.

As to the Gamestore - I didn't write the code that drives that but as far as I can tell it uses it's own database so with luck this crash won't affect it.

-- Pooka, aka Spoony, aka Goblin Flectomancer, aka something else next week.

After 1 hour of uploading my computer has set a new estimate on upload time - 16 1/2 hours

Hold on folks, this will take awhile.

I just hope most storyhour writers have their updates on their boards.

Quote from: goldI just hope most storyhour writers have their updates on their boards.

I was thinking that five months is is going to be a lot of game time to make up in a Play by Post game...  :mad:

There was a rift? I never noticed.

Five months? Wow, that will hurt all PbPs games

Pooka is a friggin' hero.

And by 'hero', I mean "someone who is going extraordinarily out of his way to do difficult and time-consuming things to help another site that really needs it.

I'm humbled, and deeply appreciative.

Quote from: PiratecatPooka is a friggin' hero.

And by 'hero', I mean "someone who is going extraordinarily out of his way to do difficult and time-consuming things to help another site that really needs it.

I'm humbled, and deeply appreciative.

Holy shit! It's Piratecat. He lives! :eek:

Classy move, Pooka.

Hopefully all of the "my messageboard can beat up your messageboard" schoolyard crap is behind us now.

And a little downtime over there does give folks some time to take a look at what you have set up here.

Maybe this town is big enough for the both of us.

Quote from: goldI just hope most storyhour writers have their updates on their boards.

At least in my case, I've got all of the updates to my pair of SHs intact and each parsed by week, so it'll just take some time to repost them once the SH forum is back up. I'll regret losing months of feedback on them, but it's better than it could have been.

I suspect that we'll be losing a bunch of SHs that had slow starts, or abortive starts, in the last five months. I hope I'm wrong however.


And bless you Pooka. You are indeed very cool.

Quote from: PiratecatPooka is a friggin' hero.

And by 'hero', I mean "someone who is going extraordinarily out of his way to do difficult and time-consuming things to help another site that really needs it.

What he said.

This is so amazingly cool of you, Pooka.  Thank you.

And I gotta ask ... What about the Circus?  If it's just gone, and we have to start all over, I may just krai irl.

Honestly, what is the deal with Enworld in that it goes down, is slow, has issues, all the time?

Is it the ISP? The server? What? I'm always close to getting a membership and shit like this happens and I'm always thankful I don't.

Good to see you around PC.

Quote from: VelmontFive months? Wow, that will hurt all PbPs games

I strongly recommend using Google to try to find copies of any missing threads. I found most of the ones I was worried about in Google's cache.

Quote from: Ragnarok N RollHonestly, what is the deal with Enworld in that it goes down, is slow, has issues, all the time?

Is it the ISP? The server? What? I'm always close to getting a membership and shit like this happens and I'm always thankful I don't.

I would assume it's just the massive amount of people hitting it every day.  That's the price of fame.

Echohawk has a good suggestion, and once this is all resolved I think I'll make a habit of downloading my current game threads on a weekly basis or so.