Many of our members may know that over the weekend we were in the process of moving our forum over to newer and more secure software.
The transfer went well at first, but sadly the backup file which I used before I shut down the old forum was corrupted, and a number of important tables in the sql file are missing. These tables are un-recoverable, and sadly this means so is the previous database.
I stayed up until 4am last night (with matchsticks on my eyes), and spent most of today trying to recover database, spending time on the phone with our hosts to accepting the fact the database cannot be retrieved.
I personally am gutted at losing all the work, posts and member details from when we began back in March of this year. I feel terrible, but more so I feel I have let the members down in some way.
First thoughts, I felt like throwing the towel in, but after spending the afternoon thinking, I`ve worked too damned hard and put too much effort into building this community to let this finish the forum.
I can only apologize to the members, an investigation is being carried out by my hosts as to why this sql file (with our database) on was corrupted so badly. We will be carrying out backups in a different and more secure way from now on. Rest assured, this will not happen again.
The main site has suffered with intermittent outages since yesterday, leading me to think the problems are more widespread than the hosts acknowledge.
To our members, I can hope that you will return to us, and help us build back this community that you had so proudly started, and once again make Maritimes Weather the best weather forum Canada has to offer.
Kind Regards,
Bob.
Maritimes Weather
