I was working on trimming back all of the dead files in the classifieds section this afternoon when during this process I got a "fatal MySQL error". Uh oh! When I took a look at the thread counts, I found that nearly 1,000 threads from the BOI alone had somehow vanished!
Ouch!
So the choice I faced was to either don't worry about those 1,000 old threads (probably more from other forums as well), or load the database from 6:00am this morning and lose whatever threads that had been posted here since then.
Seemed like a no brainer to me. So I took the board offline, and reloaded that 6:00am database backup. It took me only 15 minutes to wipe out the old database and reload the backup, so most people probably didn't even notice it was down. But some people are certainly going to be wondering what happened to those messages they posted this morning.
Sorry about those newer messages being lost, but I think that was the lesser of two evils I had facing me for this decision.
Ouch!
So the choice I faced was to either don't worry about those 1,000 old threads (probably more from other forums as well), or load the database from 6:00am this morning and lose whatever threads that had been posted here since then.
Seemed like a no brainer to me. So I took the board offline, and reloaded that 6:00am database backup. It took me only 15 minutes to wipe out the old database and reload the backup, so most people probably didn't even notice it was down. But some people are certainly going to be wondering what happened to those messages they posted this morning.
Sorry about those newer messages being lost, but I think that was the lesser of two evils I had facing me for this decision.