Database Restore Done Today -- Some 12/19 Posts Lost

[Forum Boss]

Q: What Happened to my 12/19/2013 post?

We just lost a few hours of past posts from this morning.

The reason is that we were doing a database maintenance function -- eliminating "out-of-date" classifieds. This task proved to be so large that errors occurred that prevented the valid, newer classifieds from appearing.

We looked at various solutions, and the only one guaranteed to work was restoring our last full Forum back-up, a snapshot from early this morning.

So, if you posted in the last few hours, your post has disappeared. We had to do that in order to restore tens of thousands of classifieds listings.

This does point out the importance of deleting your old classifieds. Please, please, please delete your own classifieds when a product is sold (or no longer listed).

When thousands and thousands of ads are not deleted we have to go in with the "nuclear option" -- a database scrub. In this situation that "pruning operation" failed and we had to do a full database restore.

We apologize for the inconvenience but this was the best available option.

 

[Milo 2.0]

I kind of view the loosing of my posts to that of burning Hemingway's work. They were masterpieces, gone forever, and now the world is a sorrier place

 

[Pappy42]

I noticed the missing posts. My first thought was cr-- what did I do wrong now!

 

[Immike]

I kind of view the loosing of my posts to that of burning Hemingway's work. They were masterpieces, gone forever, and now the world is a sorrier place

I felt the same way, I made a good one and poof, lol. I Can't win!

 

[snakepit]

I noticed the missing posts. My first thought was cr-- what did I do wrong now!

That is exactly what I thought. I had my 3 postings this morning on the current "don't like Savage" thread disappear and so I was waiting for the Forum Boss to tell me that I was locked out for 30 days because he did not like them.