Server crash

[SpankMe]

Well that was fucking horrible :(

File system on hard drive was corrupted so had the server provider replace it and reinstalle the OS again. They also attached the old drive so I could copy my data off it. Unfortunately the database was too corrupted to repair without losing rows, so had to use the last backup which was 2 days old.

Good thing is I got the latest OS as I was having security problems with the old one and the new hard drive is double the size of the old one :)

Thanks to all that offered help, especially nasty and grub who have sent me a new 300gb drive for my test/backup server at home. :D


There still may be files missing, so if there are any problems please let me know here.

Now off to sort my SV site.

[Fatjim]

Thats cool. I hadn't said or thought anything important in at least 2 days anyway.

[skidMark]

why is my other post at the top LOL

edit...they both are..what the shit..

[yungatart]

Thats cool. I hadn't said or thought anything important in at least 2 days anyway.

As proved by your random text to me earlier today:bleh:

[skidMark]

um spank...it's not friday yet! LOL ur post says the 24th

so um hows the weather tommorrow! LOL

[Qkchk]

Are you sure everythings ok? The posts are back-to-front :lol:

[NighthawkNZ]

Well that was fucking horrible :(

File system on hard drive was corrupted so had the server provider replace it and reinstalle the OS again. They also attached the old drive so I could copy my data off it. Unfortunately the database was too corrupted to repair without losing rows, so had to use the last backup which was 2 days old.

Good thing is I got the latest OS as I was having security problems with the old one and the new hard drive is double the size of the old one :)

Thanks to all that offered help, especially nasty and grub who have sent me a new 300gb drive for my test/backup server at home. :D


There still may be files missing, so if there are any problems please let me know here.

Now off to sort my SV site.

its good to be back... da da da good to be back... yes my singing is that bad...

[Kittyhawk]

I didnt know how to fill in my time apart from riding........I actually missed KB!
:drool:

AHH back to winding up :argue:

[Cajun]

Awsome work spank

Thanks heaps

[Bonez]

Well done.:jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry::jerry:

[Goblin]

Gotta admit...I was a little lost without my fix. But I did go riding yesterday.:2thumbsup

:grouphug::grouphug:

[Usarka]

WTF I posted this yesterday!???

[Maha]

Aint it just...wasn't having withdrawals like some were, it was lke like waiting to got to the dentist.... i knew would happen eventually....:baby:

[McDuck]

Agreed. Are we going to be able to get he past copple of days posts back?

[Str8 Jacket]

Just when I thought that some of us might actually get a life.....

[MSTRS]

It's been worse than having all the blankets stolen on a frosty night. It was worse than getting one's hand smacked.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=196159&postcount=16
It was worse than ^^^
I had to do some work :whistle:

[Swoop]

Good on ya Spank. All the hard work that you must have put in over the last day or so.:first:

[Virago]

Agreed. Are we going to be able to get he past copple of days posts back?

I don't think I posted anything of world-shattering importance in the day or so before the crash. Does anyone here think they did?

[Usarka]

It's been worse than having all the blankets stolen on a frosty night. It was worse than getting one's hand smacked.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=196159&postcount=16
It was worse than ^^^
I had to do some work :whistle:

So it was like removing the pegs then rubbing vigourously with your fingers?

finn - stop reading this and go hire some people who speak england.

:lol:

[Hitcher]

So what has everybody been up to in the past two days when they haven't been able to make their usual contribution to Kiwi Biker? What other joys of life had you discovered?

Last night I was forced to watch some talent show involving extremely attractive identical twin girls. Terrible business. Thanks for saving me, Spank.

[jrandom]

So what has everybody been up to in the past two days when they haven't been able to make their usual contribution to Kiwi Biker? What other joys of life had you discovered?

We all went over to sprotsbike.co.nz and used Quasi's bandwidth to form a withdrawal support group.

[1vanvan1]

Dam! My good rep has gone! :( I had a good 10 more good reps and they gone! Im sad now! :argh:

[Meanie]

Woohoo were back Well done Spank :niceone:
Didnt realise i had an addiction until KB was off line

[yungatart]

So what has everybody been up to in the past two days when they haven't been able to make their usual contribution to Kiwi Biker? What other joys of life had you discovered?

Last night I was forced to watch some talent show involving extremely attractive identical twin girls. Terrible business. Thanks for saving me, Spank.

You think that is bad! We in our house were forced to actually talk to each other in face to face type communications, rather than the "post and dodge" type we usually indulge in.
OMG, it was ...just awful...I even saw the guidance counsellor at school today!
Traumatised we are, totally and utterly! Thanks Spank for saving us...:love:

[EJT]

Great work spank. I was one of the ones having withdrawal symptoms. Actually had to do some work for two days:whistle:

[Mom]

I had to do some work :whistle:

I wonder if the productivity of some companies increased over the past couple of days, without the KB influence on their staff......LOL


Well that was fucking horrible :(
Good thing is I got the latest OS as I was having security problems with the old one and the new hard drive is double the size of the old one :)


Great to be back up and running though, thanks Spank, I am picking the last couple of days will not be top of your list for repeats! Appreciate all the extra effort that has been involved getting up and running again. Can we (the members) offer some financial assistance to you for the replacement hardware etc?




There still may be files missing, so if there are any problems please let me know here.



I think we will cope with a couple of days of lost posts mate!

[Nasty]

Great work Spankme ... btw I think I ordered a 400gb drive ... was almost the same price :yes:

Thank god I got something to read again at work ... I have been really bored the past two days!

[T.W.R]

That man deserves a DB :headbang:

Though when I tried checking in this morning instead of the server note I got a screen full a cache data etc :shit:

[janno]

Thanks heaps for your work, Spank. Though must admit, it was alot easier to get my feature written today without noodling about on KB. Have paypalled some money your way for this quarters membership. More to follow at a later date. You do a great job keeping us all happy and occupied . . .

[Mental Trousers]

At least my ignore list is intact.

[imdying]

FUCK KB, FIX THE PORTAL!!!!!!i

[McDuck]

I don't think I posted anything of world-shattering importance in the day or so before the crash. Does anyone here think they did?
I did. I have lost my new motorbike thread :weep::weep:

[Meanie]

Dam! My good rep has gone! :( I had a good 10 more good reps and they gone! Im sad now! :argh:

Bugger............bling sent

[MyGSXF]

Well done for all your hard work SpankMe!!! :clap: you've saved my life... :innocent:

Jen :rockon:

I :love: KB!!! :D

[RantyDave]

Yeah, a big bucket of well fucking done to that man. Maintaining a backup, over that distance and this much traffic is a non-trivial pastime. Matched only by actually being able to bring the damn thing back up again when it shits itself.

Good work dude,
Dave

[SpankMe]

FUCK KB, FIX THE PORTAL!!!!!!i

soon, database repaired ok. Lucky, because the last backup was 22 days old. Had disabled it to do some checking and forgot to re-enable it again :doh:

[Virago]

I did. I have lost my new motorbike thread :weep::weep:

Bugger. Post it up again - I'll read it...:niceone:

[mbazza]

Thanks Spankme, I don't know what others are doing when KB drops off. Cheers.:calm:

[Hitcher]

The homepage link to the forums doesn't appear to be working...

[breakaway]

Well put Dave. I know of another forum where the admin neglected to check backups :rolleyes:

[deanohit]

Fuck, you know you've got it bad when you start having withdrawl symptoms. Found myself wondering what the hell to do.
Spankme, good on ya mate!!:drinkup:

[Virago]

The homepage link to the forums doesn't appear to be working...

I always come in via the homepage - works for me.

Edit: KB Spy is not working though.

[paturoa]

KB Spy gives a 404 error.

[chanceyy]

well its good to be back ... actually managed to get some stuff done that I had been putting off .. & read a book :laugh:

hmm pity we lost bling though ... :cry:

[Donor]

At least my ignore list is intact.

Who said that??

[chanceyy]

KB Spy gives a 404 error.

Ditto .......

[marty]

We all went over to sprotsbike.co.nz and used Quasi's bandwidth to form a withdrawal support group.


i even got up to my 4th post over there!

[RiderInBlack]

Awesome Spank. Ya the Dude. KB Spy not working but can use the old method of using "New Post" so all sweet. See some other sites also seem ta be having a porblem too.

[jonbuoy]

I thought the IT Dragon at work had finally twigged to my kiwi biker addiction and cut me off. Niceone Spankme for all the hard work to get it going and running the site. :niceone:

[McDuck]

Heres my new thread. Nice bike ay???

[McDuck]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=1178337#post1178337

[Mom]

Well that was fucking horrible :(

Now off to sort my SV site.


Hope that SV site is up and running now, get Noy to give you a huge shoulder massage, or something :innocent:, you have certainly earned one!
Is there a reason the test thread is stuck at the top of the most recent threads posted in on the home page, or is it one of the irritating side effects of the "Great Crash of 07!"

[Grub]

So what has everybody been up to in the past two days when they haven't been able to make their usual contribution to Kiwi Biker?

I fully expect there to be a significant spike in birth statistics in 40 weeks from now

[Disco Dan]

I fully expect there to be a significant spike in birth statistics in 40 weeks from now

Sounds similar to the "Coronation Street christmas special" the adverts came on and everyone switched their kettles on causing a huge power drain... tripping out substations and just about bringing down the national power grid... you got to love a good cup of tea though... :niceone:

PS - whats with all the weird smilies?

[Virago]

Anyone else find the site is running excruciatingly slow?

[McDuck]

:bash::bash::Oops::bash::jerry::Pokey::spanking::P laynice::2thumbsup:argue::beer:

[Steam]

Anyone else find the site is running excruciatingly slow?

Yeah it's super-slow. I got a couple of time-outs when loading pages.

[Virago]

Yeah it's super-slow. I got a couple of time-outs when loading pages.

Okay, we need some volunteers to get off, so the site will run faster for the rest of us.

Come on, away you go...





Now please...











You're still here?:cool:

[ajturbo]

It's been worse than having all the blankets stolen on a frosty night. It was worse than getting one's hand smacked.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=196159&postcount=16
It was worse than ^^^
I had to do some work :whistle:
tell us... just why did you do that to yourself????

[Steam]

Okay, we need some volunteers to get off, so the site will run faster for the rest of us.

Come on, away you go...

Now please...



I'm not going anywhere! I gotta gets my kiwibiker goodness

[Grub]

Come on, away you go...

No .... please .... i wanna stay

[ynot slow]

Was strange last night,no kb,mind you am on quasi's site have been for while,so got my fix,shit loads of guys joining up by look of,good to have couple of forums.Some newbies on other site bad mouthing kb,then some come back here when fixed,hope they all enjoy both sites.

Mind you actually had to talk to "she who must be obeyed" in bed last night,bugger (not).
Thanks to all who helped fix the site,you don't know how much ya miss it till it's gone,no info on rides,bike queries etc.:hug:

[Steam]

Not working for me. I guess it's part of the whole server recovery thing, maybe that function hasn't been restored yet.

[Grub]

Give him a break Steam. I bet he hasn't had much play time over the last few days. It;s awesome the main event is up ... big ups for that, everything else will follow.

[SpankMe]

If it ain't working, I need to know. It's the only why I'm gonna find out.

[Kittyhawk]

If it ain't working, I need to know. It's the only why I'm gonna find out.

Im broken fix me :girlfight:haha

[Freakshow]

So glad to see it up and running again. Work has been so borring... Trademe and that knitting site just don't cut it!!!

[Mekk]

Haven't bothered to read the entire thread so it may have been mentioned already, but it's showing 66 replies and 1 view for this one.

[terbang]

Whew I'm staying here in florida and the hotel has this new beaut (and free) wireless internet. Now I can take advantage of it. I just thought it was their server cuttin out all the known sleazy sites..! Thank god its back, we can take Scumdog out of his straight jacket. Off to Key West for a nosey today..

[Zapf]

thanks for the work Spank, we know what its like... working at the back of the servers.

[Disco Dan]

Nice work Spank :Punk:

[Sniper]

Awesome to see. Thanks for the hard work Spank

[Dargor]

So Spank, what precautions do/could you take to try stop this, fsck etc?
Just wondering.

[007XX]

Thanks heaps Spankme for all the stress and hard work you've had to go through...

Heck, I missed KB allright!:hug:

[jim.cox]

Awsome work spank

Thanks heaps

Yeah, what he said :)

Its great to have Kiwibiker back :)

Thankx

=mjc=
.

[Goblin]

If it ain't working, I need to know. It's the only why I'm gonna find out.Ok, my email notification for Reply to threads isn't working.
Cheers Spank, great job you're doing. :yes:

[avgas]

Did Pirates cause dis?
Yaaarrrr
Good on ya Spankme - i had gone back to masturbating.:crybaby:
And i got my xbox last night so no biggie.

[SpankMe]

Yep, email not working yet. Can't get php mail to work, working on it.

Also the site will be a bit slow until I setup PHP caching again and redo server tuning.

I also need to do a reboot of the server some time today, should only take 10 mins.

[Phils Motorcycles]

People using http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/ are getting a directory listing (nothing there except a "back" link) instead of getting http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/index.php displayed.

[Animal]

Thanks heaps Spankme for all the stress and hard work you've had to go through...

Heck, I missed KB allright!:hug:

Exactly what she said.:clap:

[Finn]

finn - stop reading this and go hire some people who speak england.

:lol:

I wish I could. Trouble is they've all left the country and the dregs that are left are not worth hiring so I have to give the jobs to immigrants... like Dover. Most of them are pretty good but you're right, English is a problem.

One of our managers recently received some CV's. 25 respondents 1 kiwi. There was something wrong with the kiwi so we didn't have a choice.

[SpankMe]

emails working.

[Crisis management]

Huge effort your putting in here Spank to save our various social lives......thanks lots!!!!!!

[young1]

Wow I cant believe; how my productivity at worked picked up while the site was down, or how much I missed it!

Great to see it back again, we would be really lost without it!

[ajturbo]

Whew I'm staying here in florida and the hotel has this new beaut (and free) wireless internet. Now I can take advantage of it. I just thought it was their server cuttin out all the known sleazy sites..! Thank god its back, we can take Scumdog out of his straight jacket. Off to Key West for a nosey today..
hey call up my mate... he lives there (key west)

just go to any bar and ask for mitch....lol

[McDuck]

email? how? what? where? why? how?

[kevfromcoro]

Wots going on here.
The server hasnt been down.
Ive been watching it all week with my friend J Danelles
Mind u we did miss a couple of days.
Maye be that.

[phantom]

Feckin computers , thats why I'm only a computer tech now Monday to Wednesday and a garderner Thursday to Saturday'ish. Thankfully I can still get my KB fix after going cold turkey for a day or two

[pete376403]

I have to say its good when servers etc crash (except KB). Its the fixing of them that keeps a roof over my head and bikes in the shed. An evil wind etc...

[McDuck]

So how dose the email notfication work?
Thankingyou

[ajturbo]

If it ain't working, I need to know. It's the only way I'm gonna fix it.


umm.. this is a little shamefull...... but..
this is hard to say...

yes it's my love life... it's not working....
can you PM me when you have fixed it please..

thanks

AJ
:whistle:

[merv]

Just as well I was away until today huh!

[Virago]

umm.. this is a little shamefull...... but..
this is hard to say...

yes it's my love life... it's not working....
can you PM me when you have fixed it please..

thanks

AJ
:whistle:

Perhaps your Hard Drive is too small?:done:

[SpankMe]

All missing avatars, sigpics and profile pics are restored. Let me know if any still have broken image links. Working on attachments now.

[doc]

umm.. this is a little shamefull...... but..
this is hard to say...

yes it's my love life... it's not working....
can you PM me when you have fixed it please..

thanks

AJ
:whistle:
Good try, but no one has seen him walking on water yet...?

[skelstar]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, the RSS feed hasn't worked for me pretty much all day Spank. On three diff computers.