For those of you who have followed the twitter updates, you probably know already this was quite a bumpy road.
For those who didn't follow these developments, essentially the server's raid controller died out of the blue. I'm not going to go into any details, but it was a very exhausting and unpleasant experience that even got me into trouble at work. Either way, we're finally back up and that's what matters.
Unfortunately due to -reasons-, while we have daily backups of the server accounts, it turns out there were no backup system in place for the forum and wiki data. I initially thought we had no backup at all (which means we'd have to restart from zero) I discovered a backup from August 21th back when I was running local tests on my personal dedicated servers. So yup, we've lost a fair bit of forum stuff, but at least we're there.
It's a really bad event for disco, but it could have been much worse. Together, we'll have to rebuild what was lost.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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To recover at least parts of lost threads, members can try the following to find cached versions.
1. Go to your History.
2. Find the link to the thread.
3. Copy-Paste thread to Google Search.
4. The link that pops up will have in green text the web link and a green arrow pointing down next to it. Click that arrow and select "Cached"
5. Save whatever you can find!!
This hopefully eases the pain a bit especially for those who had extensive stories going on.
Oh, it's August now... Wait... I don't see Dubovik's execution post which was wrote by Winter... Congrats, you overruned me.
Still, huge thanks for forum recovering.
(11-10-2015, 09:54 AM)TheJarl Wrote: To recover at least parts of lost threads, members can try the following to find cached versions.
1. Go to your History.
2. Find the link to the thread.
3. Copy-Paste thread to Google Search.
4. The link that pops up will have in green text the web link and a green arrow pointing down next to it. Click that arrow and select "Cached"
5. Save whatever you can find!!
This hopefully eases the pain a bit especially for those who had extensive stories going on.
You have my utmost gratitude for sharing this, thank you.
EDIT - Is it safe enough now for us to go ahead and start fixing things via this method?