[TC Dale]

Quick update about the forums.

On Wednesday, Sept. 28th, the server "hanged" and we requested a reboot. But the server didn't start again and support told us that they will have to install a new harddisk with a fresh system on it, also installing the old harddisk as a slave drive.

The crash occured at noon during the backup run, and it's obviously not been a hardware problem, but a file system problem. The only backups that were not on the server HD and the forums HD, were two backup sets from July 17th, the other one from March.

After long discussions about trying to rescue the old HD file system which turned out to be corrupt, we found out we were not able to recover the latest backups since there were bad sectors, and total sections that were unrecoverable.

The crash occured at the backup around noon like all scheduled backups, which also regretfully interrupted files that were needed to reinstall the most recent forum file system information. When the server reset, it also left us without a complete backup except for the July and March backups which were in other locations.

For now I believe that Andreas will build from the July 17th database, and go from there since all the other backup databases from the 7/17 on were unusuable due to the catastrophic crash during a backup, and a HD failure.

This isn't a lot, but some info in a nutshell on the situation.