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So what on earth did I do?

Dav · 2014-01-05 17:33:56

OK folks, here's a breakdown of what happened today. There was some maintenance to be done - the Airsoft forums are getting a bit of a tidy up, so I started on that. I was not as careful with the vBulletin tools that manage this as I should have been and I accidentally copied every post from the site into one of the…

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#92 06-01-2014 12:53am
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We need a Dav throw his hands up card.

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#93 06-01-2014 1:10am
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So... all those bannable posts from this morning disappeared into the bit bucket, right? RIGHT!!?!11!!±1!

The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.

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#94 06-01-2014 1:31am
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Ctrl+Alt+z?

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#95 06-01-2014 1:54am
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All posts made after the restore are showing up in searches (well, the usual one or two lines at least).

For instance, I get one or two results for between 7am and midday, when I search for who has quoted me.

Guess that's just cache though and won't last?

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#96 06-01-2014 2:42am
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Cheers for the heads up and honesty Dav, kudos!

I assume there'll be some sort of forfeit punishment handed down upon Dav though?

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#97 06-01-2014 3:46am
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Darkglasses wrote: »

Mistakes happen all the time - admitting to kinda big ones is admirable. Also, putting in all that work to rectify it on a Sunday afternoon is better than most would do.

I'd say his chances of keeping that one a secret were slim and I think if most people left work before they fixed something like that they wouldn't coming back! Still, mistakes do happen. I'd love to know the technical details though.

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#98 06-01-2014 6:24am
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I missed all the fun being in a and e with no signal! Was dying to catch up in the weather forum and took me a while to figure out why there was so few posts since I had been on last

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#99 06-01-2014 8:39am
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#100 06-01-2014 9:53am
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[Deleted User] wrote: »

40 million new posts in one of the airsoft forums, that would have been great craic for anyone following that forum with instant email notifications set up.

Please PLEASE tell me this happened!!!

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#101 06-01-2014 11:10am
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I'd imagine the next baby boom will be traced back to Jan 5th

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#102 06-01-2014 11:25am
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Does the double-jeopardy rule work for anyone who was banned after 10:30 yesterday morning

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#103 06-01-2014 11:57am
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Doesn't boards.ie have a mirror?

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#104 06-01-2014 12:20pm
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mike65 wrote: »

Doesn't boards.ie have a mirror?

yes and Dav was admiring himself in it at the time, hence why he wasn't fully concentrating on what he was doing.

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#105 06-01-2014 12:24pm
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*lol*
Reading this thread has made me very happy that I stepped away from modding airsoft

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#106 06-01-2014 12:31pm
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Ah Shure tis grand. It'll Be fine

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#107 06-01-2014 1:45pm
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Is there a camera or any sort of recording equipment in Boards.ie HQ? Preferably one squarely centered on Dav's face. I've love to watch it as he is going about his business and then realizes his mistake. At which point I would freeze-frame it and move frame-by-frame.

I imagine it would look something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zncz2ZjmOdw

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#108 06-01-2014 2:01pm
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I love this... from now on any time that I do something dumb I can say "well at least *I* didnt megamerge the whole site.... hmmmm!!" .. or..

"Do you remember the time I merged the whole site into one forum... oh no, wait, thats was YOoooooU!"

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#109 06-01-2014 2:02pm
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Folks, presume you're aware charters and other sticky posts are missing from forums on touch?

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#110 06-01-2014 2:03pm
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MugMugs wrote: »

Folks, presume you're aware charters and other sticky posts are missing from forums on touch?

Yup, there's a tech person reply already in the site dev forum about it.

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#111 06-01-2014 2:05pm
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MugMugs wrote: »

Folks, presume you're aware charters and other sticky posts are missing from forums on touch?

Not all of them though. For example, VoIP still has its charter and sticky posts. Radio for instance has no charter now.

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#112 06-01-2014 2:09pm
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DeVore wrote: »

I love this... from now on any time that I do something dumb I can say "well at least *I* didnt megamerge the whole site.... hmmmm!!" .. or..

"Do you remember the time I merge the whole site into one forum... oh no, wait, thats was YOoooooU!"

Would you describe is as an act of oafery or boobery?

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#113 06-01-2014 2:10pm
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The bug has been reported in Site Development anyway.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88322779#post88322779

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#114 06-01-2014 2:10pm
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Mr. G wrote: »

Not all of them though. For example, VoIP still has its charter and sticky posts. Radio for instance has no charter now.

Just did a test. If you post in a sticky on Desktop and refresh touch then the thread reappears.

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#115 06-01-2014 2:16pm
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I reckon there will be minor bugs cropping up from this for a little while. For instance on touch, threads usually load at the newest unread post for me, but right now theyve reverted to the first page or before the newest unread. Not a biggie but a sign the site has been through the wars.

Carlsberg don't do fcuk ups, but if they did they would probably be like Dav's.

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#116 06-01-2014 3:00pm
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Dav, have you ever heard of ctrl+z?

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#117 06-01-2014 3:29pm
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rarnes1 wrote: »

I'd imagine the next baby boom will be traced back to Jan 5th

Don't be silly. Most boardsies couldn't get the ride in a bangkok whorehouse. :pac:

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#118 06-01-2014 4:01pm
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Some delayed replication might be an idea

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#119 06-01-2014 4:02pm
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Dav wrote: »

OK folks, here's a breakdown of what happened today.

There was some maintenance to be done - the Airsoft forums are getting a bit of a tidy up, so I started on that.

I was not as careful with the vBulletin tools that manage this as I should have been and I accidentally copied every post from the site into one of the Airsoft forums instead of just the posts from one of the forums that was getting merged.

you might imagine, moving 40+ million posts caused something of a catastrophic problem for the site.

So, to repair the problem, the site was taken offline and Colm and Chris on our sys admin team as well as Rónán from Tech spent the afternoon restoring from a backup. The time on that backup was about 6:30am this morning, so we have lost all posts created between then and now.

I can only apologise to you all for making this mistake and taking us offline. It was bloody stupid and I'm mortified that I made such a balls of something that should have been reasonably straight forward.

I hope your afternoon wasn't too badly upset by the outage.

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.

Tisk tisk ,you will never get laid again after this mistake playa.

First step to being awesome is grabbing on your balls in a provocative manner and owning up ,yeah it was me. You did. Therefore you can. Be awesome that is.

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#120 06-01-2014 4:05pm
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Did it need a mass PM? Surely a site wide announcement would have been enough?

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#121 06-01-2014 4:07pm
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Dravokivich wrote: »

Did it need a mass PM? Surely a site wide announcement would have been enough?

Not everyone reads the front page. I've been getting pm's from users of the A&P forum asking if the mods had deleted their posts etc because they were missing from the threads.

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