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Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:50 am
by Justin-T
Did we just lose nearly 3 months of posts?

Re: Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:06 am
by balzaccom
Looks that way---or at least misplaced for a while.

Wonder what happened. Did somebody hack this site?

Re: Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:03 am
by Justin-T
Last night I couldn’t see the site at all, it was showing a php (?) error screen of some kind, so it’s possible it’s a server glitch. Hopefully there’s a backup somewhere, because there’s useful information in those vanished posts... :shock:

Re: Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:43 am
by dan
Yes--sorry about that! It's my fault.
I lost the recent backup of the database when setting up the backup of the database, of all things.
I recently moved to a cheaper cloud server and all went well, until now.

I will see if I can scrape archives from Google cache.

Dan

Re: Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:26 pm
by Justin-T
OK, thanks for replacing the missing threads Dan.

Lost posts for January-March 2018 restored

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 1:41 pm
by dan
You are welcome.

Thanks for posting here and providing valuable information.

I hate to loose this stuff. I restored most of the missing posts from Jan. 7, 2018 to present, manually, using cached copies from Google (hint: just prepend "cache:" to the URL in the Google search box).

Any new logins after Jan. 7, 2018 have to be reregistered, but your posts are here.

Re: Lost posts?

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:09 pm
by Phil
No fun! Thanks Dan. Good luck with it.