Title: We're back hopefully
Malach - November 16, 2006 03:03 AM (GMT)
Many of you may have notice this forum was down for about 8 hours today. Invision main site was also as were other forums on that particular server. Hopefully it will stay up now. I am assuming Invision was having server problems, I will check into it. I also notice there are some issues with icons and grapnics in the main forum body (some smilies too). I have also notice that the thread seem to only go up to March 06.
Dr. Venkman - November 16, 2006 03:06 AM (GMT)
The Rune and Neo forums are missing too...
Eyes Called Sharingan - November 16, 2006 03:07 AM (GMT)
I also can't view any of the GFX threads it's like they're not there.
Malach - November 16, 2006 03:11 AM (GMT)
Yes, it seem anything created after March 06 is missing . . . That is going to have to be checked into.
Malach - November 16, 2006 03:14 AM (GMT)
This from Invisionfree:
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The support board will be back online shortly.
As I'm sure many of you may already know, Server 1 suffered a hard drive failure today. As it is one of our last servers to be updated it unfortunately remained vulnerable to a hard drive failure. Our other servers have been previously updated and do not have the same issue.
For those of you with an S1 board, we have restored as much data as possible from various sources. Some settings may be out of date and newer posts will be missing. A notice will display in topics with missing posts. We are cautiously optimistic that all remaining data will be restored over the coming days. |
Gonna kinda have to wait and see. Unfortunately this is one of the older forums on Invision, so we are on their main server.
Malach - November 16, 2006 03:21 AM (GMT)
So far this is what seems wrong:
1. Missing graphics
2. All thread have been rolled back to March 06
3. Missing smilies
Please report other technical issues here, I am really interested to see if members statuses were effected.
Pimpinorbit - November 16, 2006 03:34 AM (GMT)
Well im possting to see if any indifferences are shown. Hopefully none but the server is still very slow
Topics being deleted even when it says there are replys
Example of this
Malach - November 16, 2006 03:53 AM (GMT)
Yea that is becuase the front page is updated, but the actual thread are only up to last march, so anything after that does not exist at this moment.
Pimpinorbit - November 16, 2006 03:59 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Malach @ Nov 15 2006, 10:53 PM) |
| Yea that is becuase the front page is updated, but the actual thread are only up to last march, so anything after that does not exist at this moment. |
So all those things have been delelted, lost, or what?
Malach - November 16, 2006 04:03 AM (GMT)
Here some info I got.
The Main Invision site, Invision support, this forums,and ALL forum images are hosted on Server 1. Server 1 is the oldest and most important server so they never upgraded it. It crashed. Everthing they believe is backed up somewhere, they think they can get it all fixed at most by the weekend. Well the Support forum is back up.
Malach - November 16, 2006 04:08 AM (GMT)
From what I am reading, server one is the biggest server and most of the more popular forums are on it, and all them went down today.
Malach - November 16, 2006 04:13 AM (GMT)
The Support Forum is all messed up too, it switched peoples board names, it switched mine to Taloom . . . what is a Taloom?
Hojo - November 16, 2006 05:04 AM (GMT)
Everything's fine on my end. Still a PM, still have signature and stuff.
That was weird. I thought you had messed it up on your work with Co-tcg.com. You're lucky this came back before I burned the fifth effigy.
Psych Out - November 16, 2006 05:27 AM (GMT)
I thought someone had hacked into it or something.. :o
Well, I hope it'll been done quickly.. My gfx thread is all messed up :o
Enigma Zero - November 16, 2006 05:35 AM (GMT)
Just as a small suggestion, if your thread is hosed but you still see it...I wouldn't suggest posting in it just yet. It might(if it's even possible) cause some minor issues when/if repaired. Just a thought.
For the momment we can only really wait to see how this works out. Since we're not even close to the only forum effected....one would think this would be within the next day or two. :angel:
thunder - November 16, 2006 06:33 AM (GMT)
My Inbox is empty. I think all of my PM's got deleted.
snake - November 16, 2006 07:01 AM (GMT)
the opposite for me, all mine are back.
Malach - November 16, 2006 01:42 PM (GMT)
Hey Banners and some graphics are back, that is a good sign. Also from Invision:
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| Hi all. We are working to restore the remaining posts and data on Server 1. For more information please see the announcement. If you are logged in on an account other than your own, please log out and back in. |
Malach - November 16, 2006 06:48 PM (GMT)
In addtion if you are having issues signing on or up with this board, contact me via email:
rubbersuitman@rubbersuitstudios.com
Megaman X - November 16, 2006 07:55 PM (GMT)
can you fix the banner malach? its on my nerves thanks ;)
Malach - November 16, 2006 08:29 PM (GMT)
According to the Invisionfree people they hope everything will be fixed by the weekend. Here's the weird part, I can see the banner and other graphic on the pc at work, but not at home.
I could not fix it anyway as I am not an admin
Megaman X - November 16, 2006 08:45 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Malach @ Nov 16 2006, 04:29 PM) |
According to the Invisionfree people they hope everything will be fixed by the weekend. Here's the weird part, I can see the banner and other graphic on the pc at work, but not at home.
I could not fix it anyway as I am not an admin |
yeah i didnt think about you being admin or not i just wasnt thinking when i posted this.
maybe its something with when it crashed it corrupted files if you were on it? that could always happen because i seee people like Eyes Called Sharingan, Pimpinorbit who werent on at the time and there avatars are gone but i was on at the time and i think i saw you on and nothing effected ours.
Malach - November 16, 2006 09:08 PM (GMT)
Yeah. Another thing I found out is all hosted images are hosted on server one, so some are back, some are not.
Dr. Venkman - November 16, 2006 09:09 PM (GMT)
I can see the banner fine.
Psych Out - November 16, 2006 09:31 PM (GMT)
For me, its a red X.
Malach - November 16, 2006 09:39 PM (GMT)
Yeah it is different on different PC's very strange. Mine at home, I get red x's for the banner and all the imagery on the side.
Malach - November 16, 2006 09:42 PM (GMT)
They are talking Monday or Tuesday now to be completely fixed. Also it seems some people who have boards are kind of ticked of and have put up some rather profane new boards attacking the owners of Invision.
Malach - November 16, 2006 09:46 PM (GMT)
Also interesting any boards created after March of 06 are no longer in the directory
http://invisionfree.com/directory.php
GToon_Fanatic - November 16, 2006 09:59 PM (GMT)
i havent been on in a while , and i forgot my pw so i sent to email and it didnt ever come , waited about a hour so i kept guessing and eventually i got it .. :bagged:
Malach - November 17, 2006 12:40 AM (GMT)
More from IF:
| QUOTE |
Hi all. We are working to restore the remaining posts and data on Server 1. For more information please see the announcement. If you are logged in on an account other than your own, please log out and back in. If your forum appears to have disappeared, it can be found at the URL it had in March 2006 (you have changed its URL / name since then).
Recovery Status: Drive is awaiting diagnosis. We expect a full recovery of all data.
FAQs
Can I post in "broken" topics? Yes. Any posts you make will not be overwritten later. Can I move topics? No. If you move a topic, you will have to merge the moved topic with the restored topic. My board's name changed. Can I change it back? Yes. Will PMs and settings be recovered? Yes.
- The InvisionFree Team |
So it seems like everything will recover it is just a matter of time.
Sesshomaru - November 17, 2006 01:30 AM (GMT)
thunder u started gettin pm's after march 06 cvuz i foudn some pm's that broughtback memories and the recent name changes have reverted back to the old if im right like choas is choas dragoon again
Pimpinorbit - November 17, 2006 03:06 AM (GMT)
same here with images.........some show for me that you all cant see
Shadow - November 17, 2006 12:46 PM (GMT)
All these missing posts are annoying x.x
TOYI1SOCCER - November 17, 2006 02:24 PM (GMT)
Be patient, eventually all will be restored. :P
Malach - November 17, 2006 02:25 PM (GMT)
OK, I asked the question about images. You can all monitor it from this link.
http://support.invisionfree.com/index.php?showtopic=400318
Dr. Venkman - November 17, 2006 06:08 PM (GMT)
I'm on my computer at work right now and I have the red x's for the banner and some images. But at home I can see everything fine. Strange.
Even my avatar is a red x.
-Dum-The-Gorilla- - November 17, 2006 06:49 PM (GMT)
Is it me, or Neo and Rune forum is gone also :P.
Pimpinorbit - November 17, 2006 07:11 PM (GMT)
Not yoou Dum. Those are gone atm
Dr. Venkman - November 17, 2006 07:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (-Dum-The-Gorilla- @ Nov 17 2006, 02:49 PM) |
| Is it me, or Neo and Rune forum is gone also :P. |
Ya I mentioned that in this thread right after Malach's first post about the problem.
Malach - November 17, 2006 08:14 PM (GMT)
They were created after MArch 06, they will return when the rest do.