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July 10th, 2004, 06:40 AM
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ITS BACK UP!
What happened, why were the forums down?
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July 10th, 2004, 06:45 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
Hard Drive failure.
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July 10th, 2004, 06:50 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
Really? That sounds like something that would happend to one of us.... wait, it has happened to many of us.
Can you offer more details Richard?
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July 10th, 2004, 07:07 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
YAAY! 
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July 10th, 2004, 08:45 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
Yay! It's just not the same without the forum...
Last night I was about to post something when the whole Shrapnel site went down. Then I kept checking every so often. This morning I saw the note that said that the server failed, and then a bit later the main site came back up but not the forums... Anyway, it's good to have the forum back now!  |
July 10th, 2004, 08:47 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
You saw a NOTE? I was this note posted? I looked on the main page but saw nothing.
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July 10th, 2004, 09:01 AM
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Re: ITS BACK UP!
This morning when I went to the Shrapnel home page, it was just a white screen with a text message that explained that the server failed but you could still order products Online from Gamers Front, with a link to it.
Last night, there was nothing and you just got a page not found error.
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July 10th, 2004, 09:14 AM
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Thanks.
This is what happens when you let employees use the web sever for browsing of the internet. Someone hit a porn site by mistake, ah huh, and the pop ups overflowed the system buffer, causing a cascade server failure of the main pipe line resulting in a CPU over usage alarm which caused the Hard Drive back up buffer to fail thus shutting down the redundent RAM data and tape back ups causing the Hard drive to loose integrity resulting in Hard Drive system failure.
NOw this could have all been avoid if Shrapnel Games would have invested in the Atrocities 2000, a pop up killer that blocks porno pop ups and redirects them toward competator sites.
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July 10th, 2004, 12:24 PM
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Ahh thank lord this is back up. As much work i actually got done yesterday as i wasn't constantly here it just doesn't feel the same, are we sad?
Hard Drive Failure? Is the harddrive located in canada? if so i'm convinced theres a conspiracy!  |
July 10th, 2004, 03:23 PM
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Ok here is what happened.
Due to new staff on board with technical backgrounds, conversations were restarted involving things like servers, upgrades, and policies such as backups and assigning caps on some services. Someone didnt knock on virtual wood or something because Murphy got wind of our plans. In the middle of the night the system stopped responding. We were notified by the hosting company that pings were failing. reboot authorized. reboot froze. reloading of the OS to the second installed harddrive authorized. system came up (but of course no web pages or anything). scan of the initial harddrive (which takes a LOOoonnngg time) showed over 90% of the files were recoverable. Between backups and files from the old harddrive things should get fully back in swing soon. Lesson learned; never forget to appease Murphy.
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