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Board Crash Info and Emergency Plan
Topic Started: Nov 23 2016, 07:43 PM (802 Views)
Mikki
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That was a rough few days. Zetaboards, who hosts the board, had a hardware failure on four servers, including the server that held the main backup. They were able to replace the hardware relatively quickly but then had to rebuild everything from multiple backups.

It SUCKED.

So...if it ever happens again, we have a temporary board at proboards here,

http://jaimexbrienne.freeforums.net/

You can contact me at
jaimebrienneonline.tumblr.com

You can follow the tag here for board updates.
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/jb-online

Keep these links.

I am so sorry...so so sorry. This was rough.
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Currawong
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But many thanks to you and Quinn for handling it all so well. :yes: :redwine: :redwine: :redwine:
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turquoisecity
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Just a wave to say hi and thanks for keeping things going during the outage. I am here. I am lurking. I am trying to write. I'm with you guys in spirit even if I don't say much. :)
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Sophie
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I missed the board sooooooo much! I was thinking, after the 2nd day, that sucker aint ever coming back and how much sword fic had I backed up onto googledocs...but HEY!!! Didn't need it! Thanks to the zetaboard backup people!!!

Thank you Mikki and Quinn!!
xxx
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GumTree
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Thank you guys for being Dragonstone. :)
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Quinn
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I will be backing up ALL Round Robins, even if I have to copy/paste every single line manually! We cannot lose the wonder!
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Mikki
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Just a bit of updating. We have noticed a few posts gone missing, starting in the Vogon poetry. If you have your entry, please repost it if its gone.

The mods haven't deleted things.

But so far, I'm just seeing an issue with that thread. Please look around and report if you notice anything else missing.

Thank you.
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justme
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Nov 25 2016, 04:41 AM
I will be backing up ALL Round Robins, even if I have to copy/paste every single line manually! We cannot lose the wonder!
Wouldn't it work to just right-click on each page from the thread menu and save that somewhere on a computer or cloud?
If it doesn't, since it might be posted on ao3 eventually, I have all the lost sword chapters with italics and everything, and will continue to collect them, so at least that bit of work I can save you.
Edited by justme, Nov 25 2016, 11:19 PM.
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Quinn
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Yes, I can save pages as HTML or other forms too. I just want like a thousand backups now!

Otherwise, it would help us a lot if anyone wants to re-read Round Robins and make sure nothing is missing :wub:

The JB Week one is fine since it's all saved on Ao3, but the others we're not sure of yet. It's much harder to see if regular discussion posts have gone missing :-(

Just to say, a few things might be weird because of the outage.
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Mikki
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Yes, please, anyone who has a chance, make a backup of the RRs.

It would help so much if people could read through as well.
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Mikki
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Also if you check those threads and something of yours is missing, please repost.
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Mikki
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justme has the Sword RR and I'm uploading the html files of all the others into my google docs.
Edited by Mikki, Nov 26 2016, 01:12 AM.
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justme
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I can send you the pdfs of the lost sword and stranded on the red warrior for you to put into your google docs, for extra safekeeping.
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december13
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Re-read spiderdick... I know,such a tedious work. :)

All the chapters seem ok,and are there. I will do the saving of this fic,too. If something happened to my baby,I would be down like our board few days ago.
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Mikki
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I have made some backups, including the finished Halloween Party.

But it's not something I can take on regularly, so if you have a chance, make a backup. :)

Thanks everyone.
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Mikki
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justme has done a Dragonstone job creating single PDFs for each of the RRs. I have them stored in a google doc for safekeeping.

Thank you so much!
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Quinn
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Whew! Thank you everyone! We will actively backup everything creative from now on, and I'm looking into ways of regularly archiving posts/threads. It's probably overkill, but our precious posts!
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december13
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But, Quinn, it's posts where we are being sooooooo smart! And our smartness should be kept for posterity!!!
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