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Ron, what happened? Been all twitchy without my daily fix! And a bunch of posts from the last few days seem to have disappeared?
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backup was done hence the reason why posts and pm from the last day will be gone :(.
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DB fall down go boom!
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Last posts are for Sunday...but at least the site is up and running again.
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The forum database decided to curl up and die. :(

We eventually (after much blood, sweat and tears) managed to restore the DB from the most recent working backup - this does mean that any posts made after that are no more.
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Hey guys,

I think I can explain what happened here, while Ron keeps working on the DB and getting things going again
The SQL DB did some weird things and needed a restore. Unfortunately this took a little longer than expected from the hosting side of things - hence PCF is only live now. Ron is busy restoring things now back to 100%

Thats as much as I know, hope it keeps you guys happy in the mean time. Im sure Ron will post a more in depth explanation of what happened
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The site host let us down.
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mon to thurs is gone :lol:
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Transfer to WebAfrica
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g0ldback wrote:Transfer to WebAfrica
evil advertiser.... RON!!!! :lol:
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Ron2K, thanks mate :mrgreen:
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Thanks to Ron2k for stressing as much as we did these past 36 hours
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Hooray!

What was wrong?
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There was a error in the when they did that
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http://forums.pcformat.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33277 :lol:
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See thread below...
http://forums.pcformat.co.za/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33277
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Jeff pushed the big red button that says "Do not push" and it knocked out most of the interwebs in SA as well as the forums.

I have his confession :lol:
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Merging this into the existing thread. :wink:
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Ron2K, thanks man
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Thanks for your efforts and support to keep us spamming guys!

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Aw shucks, I was hoping that there would be no backup and that we would all have to start from scratch again. Tribble and I were having fun imagining this. :(
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Nooo! Everything is gone! :cry:

Maybe backup every day from now on? :wink:
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Next time can we make sure that anyone who's username includes the word "doctor" is removed from the database upon restoration? :twisted:
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Stuart wrote:Next time can we make sure that anyone who's username includes the word "doctor" is removed from the database upon restoration? :twisted:
I resemble that :twisted: An old adage for you mouseman, amble off with short and jerky movements :!:
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*ambles jerkily off, careful not to offend the powers that be*
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