Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Lately there just seems to be an arbitrary deletion of threads on this board. The system goes down and when it comes back up a number of threads have been removed. Is there any reasoning behing this... Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhereman Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Seems to me that a whole day or two ot threads have been removed -- a moderator whose hand is quicker than the eye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Don't be so quick to assume that the threads were "removed". Tony and I get blamed for that enough. It is a result of server problems caused by DOS attacks, database corruptions, and RAID failures. Though not all at once. The threads go missing when the site has to be "reinstalled" from a backup copy. Backups are only made every so often (once a day? every other day?). So when that happens, there are bound to be some threads that are lost. Keep an eye on the Site Feedback forum if you want to know more, as Tony and I aren't really the guys who deal with these types of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Read Brian's post <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=007gj8">HERE.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd frederick Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 If it's any consolation, I couldn't connect with any photo.net sites today, so it isn't just this forum. There's no conspiracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Josh: Thanks for the explanation. Not to pick on you but one thing I am not sure about is some threads got deleted while other threads, both before and after thoese deleted threads, remain. Does that happen or is it just my memory error? Any further thoughts on what happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I have no idea. I have not been able to access the site since last night. The only "admin" thing I have done recently is to set an expiration on the "Street photography forum" thread. But I posted that I had done it, and Peter A. had moved the discussion to the Site Feedback forum with a new post there (where it has since become a casulty of the server problems). I have a feeling that you are just remembering things slightly incorrectly. But who knows, my memory is like swiss cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Darn, it's that Swiss cheese that did it. :-) Thanks, Josh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray_moth Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I posted, yesterday, what I considered at the time to be a helpful answer to a forum member's interesting question, in a thread that appears now to have been <b>lost</b> (i.e. demised, shuffled off this mortal coil, snuffed it, etc ... etc ... <i>a la</i> Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch). Trouble is, I can remember neither the question nor the answer, so it's not even a fond memory. As our Gallic friends would say, <i>quel dommage!</i> ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl smith Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 "both before and after thoese deleted threads, remain" Threads prior to the server failure were already backed up. New threads that hadn't been backed up are toast. Anything thread that gets started after the system is up and running again will be visible. So there should be a period of time from after the previous backup to when the system is up and running again that no threads will exist during. More or less. Make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maik Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 in that thraed "a roll call..." from a few days ago, all answers as of march 13th are missing. shame we can't find out who is "in here" now, i bet we would have made 200 accounted lurkesrs/posters. -- maik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert_smith Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 On the up-side of all of this, AZ (or what ever symbology he is using this week) hit a recent folder of mine on Sunday to put the now standard "4" on every photo. Today, all of those scores are gone. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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