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Somehow, our crontab was not backed up (still investigating). This means that some scheduled tasks will not run until I can manually re-create everything.
That involves (at least) the following:
- Headers on top of every thread, showing posts/replies/thanks data
- User reputation scores & promotions
- The "best threads" block on home page, and top of threads
- The "questions" needing answers block, home & top of threads
Correct, it is impossible for us to recreate them.
There is more to simply dumping the data into the database. When a post is created, a lot of stuff happens in the background. And the two databases are now out-of-sync, so the data is considered "lost" but "viewable".
BTW, above language of "viewable" is assuming the data center gives us good news in a few days with the old servers damaged in the fire and water damage.
A difficult decision, but the right one. As it stands, there is no guarantee that the data center will be able to get anything off of any of the affected servers, and the best they can offer is that perhaps it will be in two days.
Biting this bullet and moving on is the only realistic thing for any business in this situation. I expect that there are other businesses who used this data center and who are in much worse shape without their data, but they are going to face the same decision, if they have not made it already.
I hope you can get something that is of use out of those servers, but sometimes you just do what you've got to do.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
We had a 100% SLA, and for every 15 minutes of downtime, we receive 1 full day free. So, should we decide to return to this data center (?), we are looking at around 250-300 days of free server hosting. Assuming it takes them two days from now to get our old hardware rebuilt, which I think is probably optimistic... those 8TB NVMe cards aren't easy to come by! And we had two...