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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2008, 05:45:26 am

Title: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2008, 05:45:26 am

Shortly after upgrading to SMF 1.1.6 earlier tonight, we experienced downtime due to an unknown error that occured editing the forum theme, which rendered the board totally useless and database unuseable. I would like to thanks an old United-TI member, Raster, for saving Omnimaga from a potential restart from scratch or closing. We are unsure why this error happened in the first place, but we took precautions the second time we edited the theme and hope this doesn't happen again.

We also had to reupgrade to SMF 1.1.6 manually afterward because the board wouldn't connect to SMF server for some reasons. It should all be fine now, though.

Thanks again to Raster.

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: Netham45 on September 08, 2008, 01:31:12 pm

Good, make constant backups!

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: Tribal on September 08, 2008, 10:14:02 pm

If you keep you comp on, you could make a bot that auto-backup's Omnimaga every xx minutes  ;D

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2008, 10:59:04 pm

maybe, but usually I open filezilla and copy all files on my computer then do a database backup

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: kalan_vod on September 10, 2008, 01:02:00 pm

Glad we made it alright, but I hope it doesnt happen again!!! Jking

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 10, 2008, 08:44:10 pm

Well I really hope this doesn,t happen again cuz it was an hassle to fix. At least we have access to database though, unlike Invisionfree

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: WittyAdrian on September 16, 2010, 11:54:29 am

Close Call!

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2010, 04:11:19 pm

HOLY NECROPOST BATMAN!
/me wonders if this is a bot...

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: JustCause on September 16, 2010, 04:13:31 pm

Sophisticated bot if it is...relatively speaking, of course, considering that "Witty"Adrian averages 3 words/post :)

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: Happybobjr on September 16, 2010, 04:17:11 pm

*happybobjr is considering it...

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2010, 04:18:43 pm

Well, some bots are made purposely to not spell correctly all the time nowadays, so they look more like new forum members. It could either be a bot, or someone who tried to raise his post count just to use OmnomIRC (or vote on polls). It could be to send PMs, too, since to send PMs, there's also a post count requirement (spam protection)

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: JustCause on September 16, 2010, 04:19:48 pm

Yea, that's one of the downsides of the new level system...lower signal/noise ratio for new users.

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 16, 2010, 04:27:10 pm

Oh we had post count requirements on PMs for over a year. We even had it on the old board for a while in 2006-07. We just no longer had post count ranks

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: qazz42 on September 16, 2010, 09:54:53 pm

UNtil he can construct something human-link, I dont trust him

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 17, 2010, 01:22:33 am

Let's not be unwelcoming to new members, though. He could be new to forums and everyone gotta start somewhere. But yeah I am personally unsure if he is an actual person.

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: Netham45 on September 17, 2010, 01:26:44 am

I was thinking two things while reading this thread:

SMF 1.1.6 was released YEARS ago
and
I don't remember posting in this thread


Then I looked at the date

Title: Re: Unscheduled downtime
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 17, 2010, 01:36:44 am

Yeah true. Back then I also remember SMF 1.1.11 was updated so often x.x.