Your Prettiest Freesite Creation Find: Round Two (Apparently)

[rum nate]

MTS2's downloads won't be available again til the 12th!

Just wanted to let people know, MTS2 now says the estimated fix time is now unknown.

This is the update from Delphy from today:

Okay, so, turns out that when I said I didn't think we'd lost any data, I was incorrect.

The primary drive from chii had a ton of read write errors on it - so much so that currently all downloads past mid-october last year (when the server was first setup - remember, we moved servers back then) are basically toast.

The backup drive has so many read write errors on it that it wont even boot the machine with it plugged in and it just goes to kernel panic mode.

As it stands I have managed to recover most downloads prior to Mid-October last year (some 127gb worth), but anything after attachmentid 826742 is gone. I am not entirely convinced that *all* downloads prior to then are intact and am investigating further to see how many prior to that date are ok.

Suffice to say I am extremely annoyed at the situation and beleive that there may be some other hardware issue on Chii becuase to have 2 drives fail so utterly is extremely rare.

I'm going to see if there is a way of getting the primary drive looked at professionally to see if we can recover any more data, but right now it's not looking hopeful.

That looks bad.

[Scurvy Cat]

I was too sick to be mean.

[Eskimo Pie]

  crap. I was actually wanting to go over to MTS2 to look for some old stuff I lost. Now it looks like it could be in never never land.

 Why couldn't it be the tsr to blow up and lose half of it's stuff. I need a good laugh.

[El Diablo]

Oh my God! You mean they store their backups on the same server? This is a huge blow. I need to go check my closet for something in basic black.
 

[ooglafina]

I feel bad for them. They must be in panic mode themselves. Maybe people can provide missing files later to fill the gaps. If the artist is retired, they might not see the light of day again. I'm thinking the graveyard might get a bunch of new acquisitions soon.

[oolongteadrinker]

crap. I was actually wanting to go over to MTS2 to look for some old stuff I lost. Now it looks like it could be in never never land.

 Why couldn't it be the tsr to blow up and lose half of it's stuff. I need a good laugh.

I'm ashamed to say that this news has put me in a panic. I thought they were just doing routine maintenance!

[crunk]

Its worth noting that you can track progress with things by clicking on the announcement at the top of the page - Delphy has made several updates to the thread since that was posted.

[HugeLunatic]

Also note the two drives reference.  It sounds as if one held the files and the other was backup, and they both failed.  And files after mid October seem to be toast, maybe not the entire drive.

[Requip]

It's got me in a mild panic too. 

[ooglafina]

Dude. Their backup is dead. I really feel for them. They must be running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I'll have to get my CC backups out when they list the stuff that's missing.

[Darqstar]

I'm just wondering if there will be a way to list all the stuff lost, if there is a record of that on another server (The pages still seem to be up, just the items themselves seem to be gone)  If that's the case, perhaps they can put out a call to the artists to replace them, and for any members who might have such items, seeing that some artists probably won't be able to be reached. 

If there was a list of missing items, I'm sure whoever could help would.  I know I'd look through my downloads and share what I have.  I'd assume most of us would. 

[Requip]

CEP!! Isnt' that the only place it's available?  I'm very panicked.

[scrappysim]

Didn't someone day that Numenor had the CEP on his site as well?

[SoggyFox]

I'm guessing that only the actual rars and stuff got lost.

[rum nate]

Okay RAID rebuild failed - the backup drive is completely toast.

I'm going to get the primary drive shipped to me so I can run my own recovery on it. However this will obviously take some days.

So, basically what I'm doing is re-installing the basic stuff on Chii (gcc, libjpeg etc) so I can get PHP compiled. Once that happens I'll run a script that tells me which files are actually missing from the filesystem, and then we can identify the threads.

Once we know which threads are affected, I'll make a custom banner appear at the top of each of them, asking for members or the creator to resubmit the files. This way we can hopefully rebuild anything missing.

I apologise for this and for the delay - it's obvious there was a massive failure of the backup systems here, which only ever comes to light when something actually goes wrong. Going forward I'm going to investigate more stringent and effective backup solutions but for now we'll have to see how bad the damage really is.

That is the latest info. What it looks like is Delphy is going to see what he can save, if anything. What can't be found the creator or if in the case that not possible, people who downloaded the stuff are going to have to resubmit it. This is going to be a mess, and take a long time to fully recover from it.