Host crash caused loss of data?

[mr softie]

Hey.

I've been working on a forum (phpbb3), and today I noticed that 3 posts have gone missing. I've checked Admin/Mod/User logs and found nothing to say anything was deleted.

A friend and admin of a forum told me that it could have been a host crash, and caused it to revert to an earlier backup?

I had posted some very important threads, I no longer have them, why? :dunno:

 

[muihtil]

same problem here

 

[Smith6612]

Well, both of you are on the Stoli server which is under maintenance (you can see what is going on by checking the Server Alerts). That might have something to do with the slight loss of your data.

 

[mr softie]

Ah I see, cheers. Will I get my data back?

 

[eternal1]

I'm on lotus, and my SMF SQLite db is reported full. When I login to cpanel all I see is a blank white page. so I cannot check any info either.
Is Lotus under maintenance also ?

 

[mr softie]

Probably, I think it said they're doing Stoli first and then the others.. So you're probably just experiencing similar problems to us.

 

[Smith6612]

Ah I see, cheers. Will I get my data back?

Well, you never know with maintenance. There is always the possibility it'll just poof itself right back. As for what is going on with Lotus, things seem to be fine on my end using MySQL.

 

[muihtil]

now I am in doubt whether to retrieve the data myself by hand, or expect to return alone

 

[mr softie]

If we had been warned properly before they did this I could have made a backup of my forum so I didn't loose these threads.

Looks like I'm gonna have to wait and see if it comes back or not.. or I'll be like this: :rant2:

 

[DefecTalisman]

Way to go on the thread hi-jacking guys. Although you are having similar problems, I doubt anyone can make out who is having what problems from the amount of chit chat.

mr softie, if you are on stoli you might find it was something to do with this -> http://forums.x10hosting.com/service-alerts/102789-stoli-cpanel-update.html#post585030 that was posted around the same time as your post.

 

[mr softie]

DATA IS BACK! WOO!!! :biggrin:

But please give more warning (like an email) if you're going to do this. Then we can offer warnings to our users. Cheers.

 

[metacomet]

Same problem here. Phff.

 

[muihtil]

data is back, but now i loss yesterday work... jajaja..

no problem.. it is not so bad

thank guys