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24th November 2014, 11:14 AM | #1 |
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Skeptic's Guide forum DOA?
I've been unable to log onto the SGU forum for several days now.
Anyone know what's going on? |
24th November 2014, 04:50 PM | #2 |
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Yeah, kinda weird, I was hoping someone might know something.
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27th November 2014, 11:45 PM | #3 |
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Quite broken.
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28th November 2014, 03:41 AM | #4 |
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Basic rule number 2 of backing up your data is sometimes do a test restore from your backups to make sure they work. Do this without touching the real data.
Basic rule number 1 is do backups. http://sguforums.com/ |
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28th November 2014, 07:30 AM | #5 |
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7th December 2014, 02:43 PM | #6 |
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The forum is back, well sort of. Everything from 2012 has been lost. http://sguforums.us/index.php/topic,...72412.html#new
Only hope it does not happen here. |
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8th December 2014, 04:26 AM | #7 |
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These forums are hosted on Digital Ocean now. Digital Ocean have a little tick box that says "back my server up every day". Of course, (a) you need to tick that box (and your server costs 20% more if you do), (b) those backups have to work, and to test them you have to create a new virtual server, and (c) if you suffer from subtle database problems rather than bang-you're-dead, you might find that your backups are full of useless bytes.
It's still great progress. Ticking a box and paying the money is a lot easier than keeping to a schedule yourself. |
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8th December 2014, 08:38 AM | #8 |
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