DSLReports site outage - 15 April 2012

[jabarnut]

Originally Posted by hayc59

Just got this page today so progress is moving
the date is two years old

Hey, look!
There's hayc59, siljaline, and jabarnut (among others we all know), on the left column of your screen shots under "regulars". Ah...the memories.
Seriously folks. There is no doubt in my mind now the site will be back.
Just the fact that Justin has already invested quite a bit of money, in not only attempting to recover data, but new equipment as well. And I see more data is slowly being added.
I already see pages added that weren't there a couple of days ago. Sure, it's 'old stuff', but then so am I.
It will certainly take a while, and some data is no doubt lost for good. (Remains to be seen just how much).
But as Cudni mentioned earlier, it has a strong community and following. And Justin is well aware of this. (Heck, I've often seen him post questions in the forums himself, so I'm sure it's like a home to him as well). He's spent far too much time and effort building the site over the years to just let it go 'poof'.
So let's just be patient. Heck, I'm patient now.
The first few days it was out, I was clicking on my bookmark at least 10 times a day to see what was going on.
Once I realized the true scope of the problem, I've dropped that down to only 5 times a day.

(Edit) "We have not seen this user for six weeks or more"
Lol! Hey, come on! It hasn't been that long.

[jayzzz]

Originally Posted by jabarnut

... There is no doubt in my mind now the site will be back. ...

Nor in mine. It's just a matter of when and how much.

[jabarnut]

Originally Posted by jayzzz

Nor in mine. It's just a matter of when and how much.

Absolutely...I think that's the really big question on all of our minds.

Oh, and by the way. I think this site is great too. (Although I haven't posted much here, I've been a member since Jan 2006) And I've often 'lurked' over the years
And a huge thumbs up to Wilders for allowing this thread to continue as things progress. Thank you!

[jayzzz]

(off-topic)

Originally Posted by jabarnut

... I think this site is great too. ...

It is. This is the first helpful forum I found. Hard to believe 9 years have passed since then.

[Beer Dog]

So long DSLR, and thanks for all the fish.

[jadinolf]

I'm sure it will be back but to make things worse the avast! forum is down also.

Now I'm clicking on both of them 10 times a day.

[ltsnow]

Good to hear all the positive posts. I, too, think that Justin will bring it back in one form or another. Yes, this forum is good and I am now checking out all the other posts here.

[idavid4att]

Originally Posted by slyphoxj

Not to mention all of those Direct support forums (AT&T, etc.) that we could use to bypass the provider's horrid phone support. And WOW_Dan who quickly resolved an issue with my home Internet service (not that WOW's phone support is horrid, but my issue would have likely taken longer to resolve if I couldn't have gone directly to WOW_Dan).

This is really gonna suck for those on AT&T UVerse and DSL who have issues and have to deal with AT&T's phone support .

Actually we have backups in place.... I posted in this thread earlier... I just need the spread and hookups to other forums!

[DataRiker]

In this age of cheap storage and easy to implement mirroring file systems this seems unimaginable.

As for how much money its costing Justin, I would think little if any. I am almost 100% certain the hosting company is paying for the restore. Not having backup power at a hosting facility is equally unimaginable and I'm sure they are paying for that mistake.

Anyway, nice to see you guys.

[slyphoxj]

Originally Posted by idavid4att

Actually we have backups in place.... I posted in this thread earlier... I just need the spread and hookups to other forums!

Oh yeah, you did. I just d/l'ed a QR code reader onto my smartphone and it took me to the link... thanks a bunch!!

[slyphoxj]

Originally Posted by DataRiker

In this age of cheap storage and easy to implement mirroring file systems this seems unimaginable.

As for how much money its costing Justin, I would think little if any. I am almost 100% certain the hosting company is paying for the restore. Not having backup power at a hosting facility is equally unimaginable and I'm sure they are paying for that mistake.

Anyway, nice to see you guys.

Sound like NAC is a bunch of incompetents.

Although a UPS that a server was plugged into did fail where I work, but nothing really bad happened, just a couple or so hours of downtime if I remember right. The power was on when it failed though.

Aren't UPSes supposed to send a signal to the server that they're plugged into when the remaining runtime gets dangerously low so the server can do a clean shutdown so that no filesystems get corrupted?

[FanJ]

FYI:
At the top of the forums at DSLR there is now a message:

Announcement:
Reminder: dslreports.com is operating in a read-only mode. We plan to restore login and forum posting access sometime today May 2th.

[TheAnalyzer]

Alright. Sounds promising.

TA

[ltsnow]

Update 2th May
Well this is quite a saga and far from over, however I expect to open the site at least for login and posting use from today. This state will run while the recovery company complete RAID reconstruction so we can locate the missing partition.

Yep, looks like today is the day. Yeah!!

[GrailVanGogh]

Originally Posted by ltsnow

Yep, looks like today is the day. Yeah!!

One can only hope as I am sure a few members are hurting without BBR.

[jadinolf]

Originally Posted by GrailVanGogh

One can only hope as I am sure a few members are hurting without BBR.

Yep, but it won't be long till it won't be today.

[GrailVanGogh]

Originally Posted by jadinolf

Yep, but it won't be long till it won't be today.

I figured today was a best guess on Justin's part. More like tomorrow or Fri. if their doing proper testing to ensure things are running smooth. Now would also be a good time for his web master to fix known forum issues and update the site IMO.

[FanJ]

FYI

http://www.dslreports.com/front/shutdown.html

dslreports.com outage info
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Wed May 2 19:46:42 EDT 2012

We're opening the site for limited function while waiting for data recovery
please try the following urls, they will very shortly be up:
home page
login page
forums

[jadinolf]

Thanks FanJ

Signed in a got an email.

Let's see what happened.

[FanJ]

Originally Posted by jadinolf

Thanks Fanj

Signed in a got an email.

Let's see what happened.

You're welcome, jadinolf !

See posting from Justin at http://www.dslreports.com/

dslreports.com - May 02 2012
by justin 23 minutes ago
As I have been detailing, a Dell recommended recovery lab is working to free all data from the clutches of our supposedly redundant and bullet proof storage array (hah!).

While this continues, I decided to open up limited functions on the site: specifically forums, logins, news and whatever else I can, built on the 95% of data available from our backups. I'm also using backup equipment so there may be performance hiccups.

As the remainder of data comes back (the last 18 months of posts, users, news and reviews!) it will be added into the gap waiting without disturbing any new data.

Read more at that link.

[acuariano]

great...just reset my password.

[hayc59]

back online yahoo
reset and good to go
thanks jan!!

[trparky]

I logged in and checked it out. MY GOD! My posts are ANCIENT! 2010 ANCIENT!

[nonymouse]

Is anyone able to post yet besides a couple mods? Some forums also seem to be missing also.

Edit found the forums they are where I left them 18 months ago.

[hayc59]

Seems Justin may have it backed up to 2010 and up to 2012
sometime...will see