Announcement: Site Backup Crazyness

[Andy R]

Dear Fellow AIR Members,

The last day has been full of a few wacky issues that has caused some confusion. I am going to outline what happened:

• Andy (me) was cleaning some stuff in order to upgrade the classifieds system and accidentally deleted all the forum attachments (10Gb, photos (5GB) and campgroun review attachments (less then 100MB). We had to restore from a backup. Due to the large quantity and size of the files (100,000 files = 15GB) backups on the files are done on a weekly basis. That means my mistake caused the attachments (unknown number) and photos (6) posted on May 30 and May 31 to be lost. I'm sorry about that!
• Today I was working on some template stuff and accidentally made an error. I asked the server admins to restore our database backup (made daily) and they did but instead of restoring it to another instance they overwrote our live database. This caused the posts from 1:50 am to 8:40 pm (CST) to be lost. This was an accident and they said "We're truly sorry about this".

I am truly sorry about this inconvenience. I hope that those seeking information today will re-post, I promise to not let this happen again, at least for a few years! Maybe this mean I should go grab a drink and stay away from the keyboard?