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12oz Crash

Wer das 12ozProphet.com Forum regelmäßig nutzt wird sich vielleicht heute, gestern oder vorgestern gewundert haben warum die letzten Einträge ein gutes Jahr zurückliegen. Grund dafür ist ein Crash des Boards auf dem mit über 120.000 Mitgliedern und bis vor kurzem 5.000.000 Posts wohl aktivsten Graffiti Forum der Welt. Raven, Admin und Betreiber von 12oz beziffert die Zahl der verschwundenen Posts auf etwa 1 Million. Alle Threads und damit Postings des Zeitraums 11.04.2008 bis 22.04.2009 sind auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden. Es wurden zwar seit dem Backup am 11.April 2009 weitere Sicherungen vorgenommen aber auch diese sind weg. Das offizielle Statement von Raven nochmal zum Durchlesen nach dem Jump, was auch immer der Grund für den Crash war wir hoffen die Jungs bekommen das Forum und die frequentierten Threads wieder zum Laufen. Wir machen jetzt auch mal ein Backup..

“As I’m sure most of you have no doubt noticed, there’s been a major problem with the boards starting early afternoon on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. We’re still investigating things, but sometime on Wednesday we had a catastrophic failure of the ‘post.MYB’ table in the forum database for 12oz. Basically this means that all post data here on the boards got corrupted in a very ugly way. After two straight days of running every sort of diagnostic and recovery effort known to man, we were unable to save it. Worse the automated backup was of the corrupted data, so that was useless as well. Our only choice was to try and put it together with the last clean version of the data, which was from April 11, 2008. Luckily, only this one table of data was lost, so all user account information and other data was saved.

As I’m sure most of you have no doubt noticed, there’s been a major problem with the boards starting early afternoon on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. We’re still investigating things, but sometime on Wednesday we had a catastrophic failure of the ‘post.MYB’ table in the forum database for 12oz. Basically this means that all post data here on the boards got corrupted in a very ugly way. After two straight days of running every sort of diagnostic and recovery effort known to man, we were unable to save it. Worse the automated backup was of the corrupted data, so that was useless as well. Our only choice was to try and put it together with the last clean version of the data, which was from April 11, 2008. Luckily, only this one table of data was lost, so all user account information and other data was saved.

Anyhow, we’re working to fully understand what the hell happened, and once we do, we’ll put a plan together to keep this from happening again. In the meantime, here’s a unique opportunity to rebuild all those same threads to be even bigger and better than the originals. We’ll post another announcement when we have additional news, and definitely feel free to email webmaster@12ozprophet.com if you spot any other weirdness going on.

Apologies for the drama, and thanks for the continued support.”