Forum seemed to be down and when it was pack up a few posts were missing, i assume something went wrong and it went to a back up?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Yup, sorry. I rebooted the server at around 4pm and MySql refused to restart.
I had just done a complete server backup this morning so I thought no problem, just restore that. Didn't work, whatever was wrong was wrong this morning.
Had to restore a historical server backup which booted fine. Then restored the 1am daily forum backup so that was CiA forum back up and running, all be it with the few posts during the day missing.
Now 4 hours later and I have got to restore every web site to current data, re-set up a new client web site and a shed load of email accounts.
What a bastard!
I haven't got a clue what that all was, but cheers for getting it up and running again 
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
I haven't got a clue what that all was, but cheers for getting it up and running again
Feckload of wasted time, that's what it means!
Well done Chommers, but remember next time you link to those porn sites make sure the antivirus software is up to date 
Well done Chommers, but remember next time you link to those porn sites make sure the antivirus software is up to date
Doh! What-a-mistaka-to-maka 
Still, despite the pain it's proved a couple of things - the full server back-ups restore fine and the daily forum backups are robust too. I just need to sort out off-site storage of the compressed server backups - it's 3GB of compressed data which is a bit of a PITA.
Still, despite the pain it's proved a couple of things - the full server back-ups restore fine and the daily forum backups are robust too. I just need to sort out off-site storage of the compressed server backups - it's 3GB of compressed data which is a bit of a PITTA.
Eh ? New storage device ?
LOL. Not much use as the are but split 'em and they hold quite a bit.