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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The reason is that we were doing a database maintenance function -- eliminating "out-of-date" classifieds.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.
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The reason is that we were doing a database maintenance function -- eliminating "out-of-date" classifieds.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.









