What did you do while Boards was "undergoing maintenance" [ALL-IN-ONE THREAD]

Tried to busy myself cooking, eating, walking, anything to make the cravings stop.
Now that I have had my fix a calm has decended upon me and I can finally rest.

So boards went 'pop' early this afternoon, weather it was due to a itchy fingered admin, an malnutritioned hamster, or simply someone tripping on that damned server cable. A few words of thanks I think is due to the whole of the boards team, for spending the last several hours or so of their Sunday trying to fix the problem, and provide a place for us nerds, lonely hearts, self proclaimed knowers of everything, trolls, wums, or just some one trying to gather a little knowledge, a place to find it all. On what is a free service, yes FREE, we thank you for all you do.

Mint Sauce.

EDIT

Just read the announcement. Well was actually about an hour ago, so it turns out it was an itchy fingered admin.

:P

Ah dont worry Dav, ye's are all still doing a great job, well done, and keep it up. Even more thanks due, trying to fix the issue on your SUNDAY EVENING. Hopefully more posters might be more appreciative of the staffs efforts to keep this place going.

I tried to ring Liveline. Joe wasn't answering:(
So I got my artistic hat on and did a protest banner.

I think i speak for everyone when i say this


DONT EVER DO THAT AGAIN BOARDS

Site went down while I was reading some of the posts on the best excuses of the prison forum thread.......error 503 came up for a split second I thought I was in trouble!!! (Funny forum!)

Well done to all the team for working so hard to get the site back up and running, great job sure it wasn't easy to fix either, looking at some of the posts on twitter some people need to just relax. Don't get the whole getting knotted knickers thing against the staff. ��

Shut the front door wrote: »

Site went down while I was reading some of the posts on the best excuses of the prison forum thread.......error 503 came up for a split second I thought I was in trouble!!! (Funny forum!)

Well done to all the team for working so hard to get the site back up and running, great job sure it wasn't easy to fix either, looking at some of the posts on twitter some people need to just relax. Don't get the whole getting knotted knickers thing against the staff. ��

Especially since its a free site. They didn't have to spend their Sunday evening trying to fix it.

Shut the front door wrote: »

Well done to all the team for working so hard to get the site back up and running, great job sure it wasn't easy to fix either, looking at some of the posts on twitter some people need to just relax. Don't get the whole getting knotted knickers thing against the staff. ��

Well done to all who fixed things. I appreciate the fact you all worked on a Sunday. Staff on the boards are fantastic and I am not affiliated to any one of them.

People complained? There's no accounting for people...

Aineoil wrote: »

Are all boardsies people who avoid housework? I do. because housework never ends.

Just a thought but shouldn't there be maintenance work at least once a month on boards so we can clean our house?

I went demented cleaning. Pulled out beds and scrubbed skirting boards. Washed the bannisters. Washed the dogs beds. Powerhosed the back yard, only for it to pee rain on it.
Washed doors, floors and furniture.

It feels good to have it done now but wouldn't want to being it too often!

Watched Sherlock

Irish Steve wrote: »

Reading between the lines, I shall have to go investigate MySQL in a bit more detail, I would have expected that package to have a transaction log, and for the Sysops to be able to exclude the rogue thread from the roll through after the data base restore, in order to avoid losing over 7 hours worth of messages.

OK, it's not on line real time financial transaction processing, but hey, I was working on database systems 20 years ago that were nothing like as capable as MySQL is, and I could use the logs to recover from something like this if it happened, and before someone gets shirty, sh1t happens in any site, the trick to success is being able to fix it PDQ without too many people noticing.

Yeah, but if your Tlog craps out because you've just attempted to copy your entire database using INSERT statements, you're pretty much stuck with rolling back to your last good full backup. You could possibly salvage the Tlog with some effort, but like you say it's not financial processing, so the effort involved may not be justified for the sake of saving a few thousand posts. It would also mean keeping the site offline while you salvage the log (cos you can't replay the log against the DB once you've started gathering new posts), which again may not be worth it.

Hide the sausage