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26-06-2010, 12:12 PM | #1 | ||
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Good evening
Happily, the forums are now back active again after a 60 hour outage. I expect that things will be a little slow for awhile as there are still a number of replication and copying tasks going on in the background so a little more patience is required. Let me start by offering my thanks to Chris (cs123) for the effort and skill he used in recovering what looked like an almost impossible recovery task. He's not had much sleep either since Friday evening and without his assistance we would probably not have succeeded. For those who are technically minded, here is the sequence of events:
Thanks to everyone for their patience. To GT and Melz, thanks for keeping the Facebook page up to date; to wulos, Auslandau and Falcon Coupe, thanks for the moral support and to all those who offered assistance, thanks. There are still some issues to be resolved with mail services and a couple of other items but we will work through these as we go. Regards Russ
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26-06-2010, 12:32 PM | #2 | ||
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Russ thankyou for all of your efforts. I don't think we can really show our appreciation enough!
To everyone else that helped out behind the scences a huge pat on the back! On the plus side... gave us mods a couple days break from taming the masses |
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26-06-2010, 12:32 PM | #3 | ||
You dig, we stick!
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Thanks to all involved in getting it done.
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26-06-2010, 12:33 PM | #4 | ||
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thanks i was bored without this site
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26-06-2010, 12:34 PM | #5 | ||
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Thank god were back
Although there will not be any at this stage, I have noticed the "new post" button is missing, may be normal if there are not any new post since last visit
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26-06-2010, 12:34 PM | #6 | ||
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Thanks For all your efforts guys.
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26-06-2010, 12:35 PM | #7 | ||
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great work guys keep up the good work
Jason
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26-06-2010, 12:35 PM | #8 | ||
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Well, I didn't understand much if any of that but glad to have the forums back.
Thanks to all for the long hours and no doubt stressful times to get us back online. Cheers, Rob
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26-06-2010, 12:40 PM | #9 | ||
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Hey Russell, thanks for your hard work and effort, hopefully you can now go and have a nice weekend full of sleep
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26-06-2010, 12:43 PM | #10 | |||
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Just good to be back. Thanks guys. |
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26-06-2010, 12:44 PM | #11 | ||
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Thanks Team! My ode to AFF Admin There was alot of movement on Facebook For the word had gone around That AFF was not online It's server, had gone down! Everyone was getting antzy They weren't getting their daily fix But what could poor Russellw do The RAID controller was on the fritz! He was up all night, he hasn't slept And up again all day He was trying his best to get it back online So it's members could have their say He's on the phone to the US Giving them a piece of his mind I would repeat some of what he said But reading the words would make you go blind! With help from all the moderators Their HARD WORK and DEDICATION I dont think we can fully realise The total frustration of this situation They do it all for the love of this site It's sponsors and its members And after it goes back up online These sleepless nights wont be remembered So now that it is back online... I just wanted to say... YOUR EFFORTS ARE TRULY APPRECIATED RUSS! THUMBS UP FROM ME...ALL THE WAY
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26-06-2010, 12:45 PM | #12 | ||
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Thanks Russ, much appreciated! Was pleasantly surprised at work to just check out and find it worked.
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26-06-2010, 12:45 PM | #13 | ||||
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Wow, that's a lot of backup failures, on a positive note at least we're not a business losing big money because of all the failure!
Well done to all concerned in chasing the issue up, getting it all back up, and getting the forums back online. The timeframe you've done it in considering the work that's had to be done is fantastic, brilliant job.
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26-06-2010, 01:04 PM | #14 | ||
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Top effort guys, great to see it all back again - hope it stays that way aswell :P
and yeah. great work!
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26-06-2010, 01:05 PM | #15 | ||
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Well done to all involved. You have done a fantastic effort on getting us up and running again.
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26-06-2010, 01:12 PM | #16 | ||
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My hat off to all involved getting the system up and running again.
Huston we are a go! again I was getting both bored and severely withdrawn without my forum! No amount of coffee could help............
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26-06-2010, 01:12 PM | #17 | ||
Just another mock-up..
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well done guys!!! was missing my fix...haha
where has the "new posts" button gone..?
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26-06-2010, 01:13 PM | #18 | ||
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Withdrawl systems .... not good
Thanks to the powers that be for their efforts to get back on line.
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26-06-2010, 01:16 PM | #19 | ||
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Once again thank you.
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26-06-2010, 01:22 PM | #20 | ||
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Thank you all for your efforts in getting the site back up. Tried an hour ago and could not get on, but all is good now.
thank you, thank you , thank you |
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26-06-2010, 01:23 PM | #21 | ||
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Great job guys & girls..
Life has been sadly boring without AFF, which really means i have bigger issues i guess |
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26-06-2010, 01:43 PM | #22 | ||
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A huge thank you to Russ and cs123, and any one else involved in the background. Great work guys.
I can't believe how hard it is to not have the forums up and running, but I guess to a lot of us it's more than just a forum. It's a place where we keep in regular contact with some of our best friends. I for one, have met some of my closest and best mates on this forum. |
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26-06-2010, 01:54 PM | #23 | ||
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We have turned off the search functions at the moment as there appears to be a glitch with part of it - as the new post button actually performs a search that would be why it has gone too.
Cheers Russ
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26-06-2010, 01:58 PM | #24 | ||
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Yes a huge thank's goes out to all involved in getting us back on line, let the good time's once again roll on.
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26-06-2010, 02:05 PM | #25 | ||
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Thanks guys...
If you've clicked here to check .. Consider a small donation to these forums... http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=52951
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26-06-2010, 09:20 PM | #26 | |||
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26-06-2010, 09:22 PM | #27 | ||
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I have been off here for a few years, and this recent outage has given me time to reflect!
Ol' timers know where i come from, the newbies may not get it ? But the effort that goes into this place behind the scenes is tireless and thankless... sure we all thank admin via post time to time - BUT we are asleep and relaxing while they are giving up their rest and re-booting the server time and time again... So from one die hard FORD nut to all the others.. Dazzler says THANK YOU to all the team that we dont realise are behind the scenes .. The team that give's us a voice every day and every night ! Your efforts are not forgotten or un-recognised ... Cheers yours truly Daz..xxx.. |
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26-06-2010, 09:24 PM | #28 | |||
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Thanks to Russell and admin team, not having the forums drove me to drink/madness..
Glad it's all back and running well. Thanks again guys.
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26-06-2010, 09:28 PM | #30 | ||
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thanks to all the guys effort in fixing the server.
i may be a newbie to this site but it has become a daily routine to me and when it was down i felt a little lost hahaha once again thanks and hope you get a well deserved rest to all those who assisted in fixing
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