Are liveWire databases backed up? why was a restore not made?

and yes, i know restoring at this stage would be very time consuming but when it first happened, it would have been a case of taking LW down and deleting the old tables and restoring the new tables, and bringing it back up.

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Are liveWire databases backed up? why was a restore not made?

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He instead deleted corrupted replies from the database together, albeit removing many topics that were fine.

If there was a backup, I guess David didn't restore it immediately when it happened because he was trying to find out what caused the problem and see if he could fix it an easier way than restoring a motherload of a database. If there wasn't well then he couldn't.

Post edited at 5:14 pm on July 18, 2008 by marshmellowman

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It would be a pain to back up the database tables up, it would also not be too helpful if they had been corrupted for a while.

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Its can be automated process that can runs each day, its not hard. And normally corruption is seen pretty rapidly on LW.

Quote: from marshmellowman at 1:13 am on July 19, 2008

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Restoring from a backup that is weeks old would have deleted a lot of new topics and replies

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Then use regular backups, every 24 hours, it wouldn't be the end of the world to lose a days worth of data on a service that nobody pays for anyway.

And i understand why the database corrupted and could not be repaired, but a restore would have taken a few hours at most, and recovered all but about 24Hours of data. Currently we have lost MONTHS of data. (and its annoying the shit outta me every time i look through my topics, lol)

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