geekhack: restoring from backup?

rowdy · 21 Aug 2013, 06:04

Message on geekhack.org:

Maintenance Mode
Okay faithful users...we're attempting to restore an older backup of the database...news will be posted once we're back!

What has happened??

tinnie · 21 Aug 2013, 06:07

They said they're going to clear everything. And rollback to 2008 jan.

Jk, no. It's just some security updates.

rowdy · 21 Aug 2013, 06:10

Thanks for the quick response.

I was just worried that we'd lose a week's worth of posts or something.

bhtooefr · 21 Aug 2013, 12:28

So, I see that rollhack hasn't changed?

JBert · 21 Aug 2013, 13:10

No rollback happened, or so it seems...

rknize, GH admin wrote:WOHA...sorry that took so long. My test only took a few minutes, but it took about an hour on the production server. Also, apologies for that misleading downtime message about restoring backup databases. That was nonsense. No rollbacks happened. No data was lost.

7bit · 21 Aug 2013, 14:08

When I read the title I thought they found some old backup tape and tried to restore some photos of the pre-rootworm era.

Oh well ...

webwit · 21 Aug 2013, 14:28

ALL MY POSTS ARE GONE!

tinnie · 21 Aug 2013, 16:06

webwit wrote:ALL MY POSTS ARE GONE!

As well as ripster's.

mintberryminuscrunch · 21 Aug 2013, 20:20

tinlong117 wrote:
webwit wrote:ALL MY POSTS ARE GONE!
As well as ripster's.

Mine are still there

JBert · 21 Aug 2013, 20:30

MY PICTURES ARE GONE!

Oh, wait...