Recent downtime and data loss

[Buffer Overflow]

Good work getting site back up.

I still prefer the old magnetic drives. I know they are slower, but they don't have all this cell wear problem. Also extra precautions need to be taken with SSDs if using as an encrypted drive, such as not using the TRIM command.

[railzand]

It really was rather blissful. Could you make it a regular thing?

[One Six]

I had no life for 12+ hours when your website went down. I'm glad its back up.

[TookDk]

Thank you theymos for getting the forum back online so quick.
Much appreciated  

[EFS]

Yesterday, internet was meaningless to me.

[BADecker]

Well, well, well! We are seeing a new addiction that we hadn't realized existed before.   

[TookDk]

Yesterday, internet was meaningless to me.

This is how the internet looked yesterday:

[BadBear]

Good work getting site back up.

I still prefer the old magnetic drives. I know they are slower, but they don't have all this cell wear problem. Also extra precautions need to be taken with SSDs if using as an encrypted drive, such as not using the TRIM command.

That's what backups are for. If you don't have backups then you probably don't really care about that data anyway. Platter drives have their place, so do SSDs.

[stellar69]

Maybe I found out a bug/error. I sent a PM to theymos to correct it.
The error was 502:Bad Gateway Error (I got it while accessing a particular thread).

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I've said this before, SSDs are unreliable. If the thing cannot be used for 10 years without any wear, it's as useless as...incomparable.

[dsyahputera]

Is the search feature is one of the problems? It disabled now

[unsoindovo]

Good work getting site back up.

I still prefer the old magnetic drives. I know they are slower, but they don't have all this cell wear problem. Also extra precautions need to be taken with SSDs if using as an encrypted drive, such as not using the TRIM command.

That's what backups are for. If you don't have backups then you probably don't really care about that data anyway. Platter drives have their place, so do SSDs.

sure!!!

raid conf > 0, and RAID 1+0 too, is not to backup replace!!!

you need always to backup your data.

especially when it is possible to do hot backup like over DB.

[sgk]

I was so bored with BCT down all day at work 

Ditto.

I was hitting the refresh button every 5 minutes to check if its back online.
Had to work all day at office because forum was offline   

[Yuki1988]

Is the search feature is one of the problems? It disabled now

You need to read theymos' post more carefully.

Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.

[bornil267645]

I was on the road when this happened. As I came to see my post. I saw 9 of my posts vanished. But then I saw this post. Glad the the site is back online.

[dogie]

Some ssd drive health monitoring might help... Ssd drives deteriorate over time...
Glad you got it restored!

Depends on the controller and the age of the firmware whether you can see true SMART stats from the drives or even they're masked. My SSD's raid array (gen 1 X25-Ms) gives me goop as SMART readings which I know are false.

[stellar69]

What happens if you keep the backup on a ssd too and that ssd also gets corrupted?
Will this lead to the entire forum getting wiped out?

[dogie]

What happens if you keep the backup on a ssd too and that ssd also gets corrupted?
Will this lead to the entire forum getting wiped out?

Backup drives have no need to be quick so they're probably high capacity non SSD drives in a raid 1. And because they're much larger capacity than the active SSD raid array, they can contain multiple, historical backups of the same databases. At least, that's how I'd do it on a budget. Probably some periodical backups moved elsewhere as well.

[matt4054]

Thanks for bringing the forum back online and posting all the gory details about it

[alani123]

I can't really see this being a conspiracy tbh. Unless damning evidence is presented I'll keep believing that is was some legit downtime due to the issues theymos talked about. The fact that this ha never happened to the forum makes me trust him a bit more about this.