kennykilleduo

Thanks for all the updates , now get back to work , going threw withdrawl , eyes are bleeding , its the blackrock I tell yea ( ohh wait , you cursed yourselves, lol) .................

Start over again , have everyone resign up , UO has changed over the years , wouldnt that be easier??

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DiP

But couldn't the forums be put back up sans old posts?

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Thanks again Maddux!

Adri: women don't discuss men while in the bathroom, we sacrifice small animals and smoke tampons *rolls eyes*

Kayhynn

Sorry it took so long for me to get over here folks....

The forums can't go up sans posts unless we want to loose all user information as well.

Right now, the forums have only been down a week. We're in the process of recovering all the data to reinstall it.

As Orvago said, it's not as easy at it sounds and there are people working round the clock with more technical expertise than us to fix what got broke.

Kiminality

I gather I've missed more than half of the attacks, and snipes at Stratics and Stratics Staff. But with what I have read (the vanilla version, if you will), I'm getting pretty tired of being called an idiot, based on speculation or poor interpretation, for (and I quote from the announcement) "events beyond our immediate control".

On a related note, I'd personally like to thank Adam, and the other staff, for trying to keep it nice. If not for them, I'd probably be a little more than 'pretty tired' of it.

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Orvago

Who called you an idiot!? Shame on them!

It is true, it was all out of our immediate control. I do promise you all though, we will be able to reveal all the details once we get the forums back up. Until then, we have to (for other reasons) just say "out of our immediate control" I hate saying it but it is very true.

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silent

Well having worked in IT for 20 years now I feel your pain and wish you luck with the recovery. I hope at the end of this ordeal some important lessons are learned and this can be avoided in the future.

skylark

QFT.

-Skylark

Mathena

I am not about to act like I know the set-up of Stratics or any of it's datacenters. Stratics had a catastrophic data loss. This is a given. But, this I know from personal experience. If they try and restore the databases from backups.....that are hmm let's say corrupted. It is possible they are dealing with a data recovery process that is more than a typical nightmare.

My company back in '98, had a database loss....it was corrupted by a DBA that was less than spectacular (that's another story). The recovery process began.. and 16 hours later we determined that we had corrupted back-ups back 9 days. Which means we recovered 9 days prior to the real-down time. That 9 days worth of data had to be re-created manually. We wrote programs to scrape data from hard copy reports...basically anything that would help. We allowed no one near that system until we had completed this process. Total downtime: 8 days

So, I know depending on the loss and all pieces of the puzzle. It is possible working around the clock that they are still putting everything back together and verifying everything. Let's cut them some slack.

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merth

Besides which, who cares? They are down and will be back up as soon as its possible is it really necessary to flame them? How many of you flamers are paying them for service? I would imagine not too many, so stop griping and visit here with us until they come back.

TheScoundrelRico

Oh man, and I just hit 20k posts over there. LOL, Am I going to have to start all over?...la

skylark

Maybe YOU are the reason the live data systems died!

-Skylark

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TheScoundrelRico

Ya know, you have a point. While I was perma banned they never had this problem. Now that I am back...BLAMO...down goes Frazier...la