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13. "RE: Forum back in service... kind of."
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   OK, got a couple of minutes between classes, so I figured I'd update you on the latest. As you may have seen in the announcement, Dave has restored the damaged threads from the latest good backups he could find, and apart from some view-count losses, there hasn't been any particular damage due to the time warpage involved (we only had to reset the threads that were affected, not the whole Forum).

We're still not sure what caused the damage, though there are theories. The threads involved seem to have been affected at random, and the clustering in ForumID24, though pronounced, was not as exclusive as it looked in the heat of the moment, so there's every reason to suspect at this point that it was in fact not the Forum losing its mind, but in fact the Forum reacting normally to damaged source files. The question of how those files were damaged remains open, but based on Dave's findings amid the time stamps and whatnot, he's hopeful that it was a single incident connected with last week's migration to an SSD-based hosting platform.

So, we're going to keep an eye on it (and we have a more aggressive backup strategy now), but at the moment (touch wood), it appears that normal operations may resume.

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   RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Offsides Apr-21-14 1
      RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Gryphonadmin Apr-21-14 2
   RE: Forum back in service... kind of. zwol Apr-21-14 3
      RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Gryphonadmin Apr-21-14 4
          RE: Forum back in service... kind of. zwol Apr-21-14 5
              RE: Forum back in service... kind of. jonathanlennox Apr-21-14 6
                  RE: Forum back in service... kind of. jonathanlennox Apr-21-14 7
                      RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Senji Apr-22-14 8
   RE: Forum back in service... kind of. JeanneHedge Apr-22-14 9
      RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Berrik Apr-22-14 10
          RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Senji Apr-23-14 11
              RE: Forum back in service... kind of. laudre Apr-23-14 12
  RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Gryphonadmin Apr-23-14 13
      RE: Forum back in service... kind of. JeanneHedge Apr-23-14 15
          RE: Forum back in service... kind of. Gryphonadmin Apr-23-14 16
              RE: Forum back in service... kind of. JeanneHedge Apr-25-14 17
   RE: Forum back in service... kind of. trboturtle2 Apr-23-14 14


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