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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:37 am

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I know not everyone has totally kept up with everything that has been going on, so just to let you know where we're at:

Feb. 26, the server on which we are hosted suffered a fluke SAN failure ("the equallogic controller crashed and when it came back up the volume manager couldn't see the provisioned volumes anymore"). We were unable to recover any data from the server.

Unfortunately, due to some confusion over our backup procedures exacerbated by my hiatus, our daily backups were on a different partition of the same SAN, and thus were also lost. The forum you currently see was salvaged from a partial backup from Feb. 18 (everything but the posts), and the post table from Nov. 29. The most recent wiki backup was Nov. 11.

We have been able to recover quite a lot of posts (particularly in affected games) via google cache and cache from users' browsers. You may have noticed that we have switched to using the subdomain forum.mafiascum.net for our url - this was done to hopefully delay losing google cache data, so if something you are interested in has not yet been recovered, please do try to find it or request that it be found here. Information on recovering posts can be found here, and we have a google spreadsheet for tracking recovered information here.

Thank you for your help and patience as we try to get back to normal.

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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:44 am

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mith, is there any way that old links can be redirected to this forum? Because (for example) when I click on links in the wiki it sends me to a nasty blank page. Or would that screw with the Googlebots?
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:01 am

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The easiest way might be to run a SQL query to update links in the wiki table backend.
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:07 am

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I think/hope the plan is to do so long-term, but right now it is not top priority.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:09 am

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Yeah I would think for now it's just better to do everything possible in order to NOT screw up google caches of stuff, in hopes that we can salvage everything possible. Thanks for the update.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:33 pm

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the chess app seems to be broken :(
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:36 am

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Just an update, I have gone from page 49 to 65 on Batman Arkham City, minus page 63. Im copy and pasting it atm, will it work if I just save the webpage?
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:40 pm

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Hmm. It should work if you just save it, yeah.
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:20 pm

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In post 6, Porochaz wrote:Just an update, I have gone from page 49 to 65 on Batman Arkham City, minus page 63. Im copy and pasting it atm, will it work if I just save the webpage?

Preferably, save it as HTML, not as a whole webpage.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:21 pm

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OK, every time I view this page (almost always from the same spot), it says every post is unread.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:33 pm

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In post 9, animorpherv1 wrote:OK, every time I view this page (almost always from the same spot), it says every post is unread.

Same here.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:37 pm

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Known issue is known (and really fucking annoying)
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:38 pm

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To be clear: quack
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:41 pm

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In post 11, Xalxe wrote:Known issue is known (
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:26 pm

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Just lock this thread.
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:18 am

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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:50 pm

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Why the heck am I getting a déjà vu right now?
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:07 pm

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There's a small but nonzero chance that Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac could impact the site this weekend or early next week. Backups are myriad and ongoing, it's just that if power goes out to the actual colo facility or the backbone gets cut, we're gonna be blacked out for a bit.
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