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So what on earth did I do?

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    #32
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Next time move all the posts in to one thread, and then the next time, all the posts in to one comment.


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    #33
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Woohoo! It's back! Don't worry, Dav - mistakes happen. You'll be forgiven, eventually :D


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    #34
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users Posts: 14,172 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Mistakes happen, funny one all the same :D

    A hell of a lot of duplicate and quadruplicate posts about at the moment,

    If anyone plans on deleting them, don't delete everything!


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    #35
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,957 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Will someone please answer fred? :eek:




    Seriously though, everything is running slow.


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    #36
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Not gonna lie. Im impressed at that :pac:


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    #37
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Woohoo! It's back! Don't worry, Dav - mistakes happen. You'll be forgiven, eventually :D

    Well done to the guys for getting it back up and running again.


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    #38
    christophicus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭christophicus


    No probs Dav, I only feel sorry for the folks having to work on Sunday. Still, keep up what's normally good work :P!


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    #39
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    UPDATE @ 19:50: The site will be slow for a while as the database caches build back up. There's unfortunately no way to speed this up other than to keep using the site. It's an unfortunate side effect of doing a total restoration of the database servers.


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    #40
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Nice to know such PICNIC errors happen to people other than myself. Move the server(s) in to the "cloud", that's apparently the solution to every computer problem, innit? ;)

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #41
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    seems to be an echo since coming back up? anyone else?


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    #42
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    So what your saying is..Boards has gone back in time?

    Twice?


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    #43
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,899 ✭✭✭gifted


    Not good enough...I want a head on a platter...with fruit..:D


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    #44
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Dav, I'd say you need to replace your Tagline with Danny's old "Hamster Killer" one as a punishment. :pac:


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    #45
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Pop Dav in the wheel with hamsters, speed the site up a bit until she's back to normal. :p


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have visions of the database engine being a bit like this one! :pac:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchbiZJlkBw


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    #47
    KevIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 39,559 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    lol if yer gonna fukk up, may as well do it spectacularly, wp Dav:pac:

    So, were all private fora posts viewable for a short time in Airsoft? Even the super sekrit Admin, Moderator and Reported Post forum?


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    #48
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Can we bring a back boards.tv or something to get our fix if things go pear shaped again? ;) Thanks to Dav and the team, apologies for the whingy bastids on Twitter complaining.


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    #49
    Ginny
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭Ginny


    Sure it was national take down the Christmas tree today, house clean and looking ginormous now!
    :D


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    #50
    Alannah Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Alannah Gallagher


    Dav, I respect you.

    We all make a donkey's shyte of something once in a while, 99% of people would have blamed technical issues or something "outside of our control".

    You were honest, that's priceless.


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    #51
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,312 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Dav's confession is now at 147 thanks and rising. This was just one convoluted attempt at thanks-whoring wasn't it?


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    #52
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    I think everyone who works in IT has had at least one horrible moment when you realise that you've done something incredibly f**ked up. The time I ran a test script in our live environment rather than our test environment springs to mind!

    Feck it, no one died. Good on you for being so up front about it Dav, hopefully it's sorted now and you can all go home.


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    #53
    FunkSoulSista
    Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭FunkSoulSista


    All this has just made me appreciate boards more. Absence makes the heart grow fonder... Clever marketing ploy eh?! :)


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    #54
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Mistakes happen.

    Fair play to you for admitting it and fair play to everyone who fixed it, because I inagine it took a hell of a lot of work.


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    #55
    blue4ever
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    Dav, good on ye! One thing will happen - you'll learn from that - take comfort in the fact that there are plenty of people who have been in that position before and lived to tell the tale.

    me? I plunged a whole newspaper in to the abiss for 6 hours once! Language not found in a bible/Quran/Talmud was directed at me - for 5 hours!

    Lived, told the tale.


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    #56
    STIG83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭STIG83


    So that's why what I posted today has disappeared!!


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    #57
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,775 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Well, I made the most of it & went & got my hair done while Dav & the lads played with Lego. :p


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    #58
    cython
    Registered Users Posts: 4,767 ✭✭✭cython


    woodyg wrote: »
    miss takes happen i've made some whoppers in IT over the years
    it's the admitting and rectifying that highlight a true man\teams decency

    what i've found over the years is the use of CRM helps to reduce the miss takes but more importantly helps recover faster from them

    Nerd interest here
    how big was the oracle database restore?
    im guessing TB's

    I'm guessing 0 bytes actually. Now as for the MySQL restore, that was probably massive...... :)

    This is based on a combination of previous posts stating that boards.ie runs on replicated MySQL DBs, the fact that Oracle licensing would likely be prohibitively expensive for boards.ie, and finally that if it was in fact Oracle underpinning boards.ie, I would expect RMAN or similar to be in place so that the restore could have been brought up to a time closer to before Dav's boo boo (archive logs, etc.), rather than simply the time of the last complete backup.

    On a lighter note, well done to the team for getting it back online, and ignore any naysayers, human error is always a risk, and the combination of owning up and resolving this on a Sunday no less is truly admirable, especially when you consider that plenty of us users avail of boards.ie as a free service!


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    #59
    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Sh*t happens. Fair play for getting things back up so quickly and for doing it on a day off.


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    #60
    Soft Falling Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Soft Falling Rain


    Dav throwing his hands up to making a human error rather than blaming a computer error, you can tell the man is no civil servant. ;)


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    #61
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    Don't beat yourself up over this Dav!





    I've sent some of the boys round to do it for you!:D:D:D


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