Beaufort County NOW had a Near Catastrophic Day, but we are Recovering (Updated - Recovered) | Eastern NC Now
Not only did our server go down, but we lost nearly two and one half months of data, in short, posts, well considered posts gone.
Not only did our server go down, but we lost nearly two and one half months of data, in short, all of our well considered posts from about 70 days were gone. Fortunately, some will be recovered today from our surrogate sites: Pitt County NOW, Dare County NOW, and others; but, some will have to be recovered from a forensic process of lifting from Google cached source code, and even then, we shall lose some posts.
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It has been over three weeks since that fateful January 4th day, and now I can conclusively promise that we have located almost every lost post that we sought to find.
If anyone knows of a missing post that we have not found, please let me know its full title, and we will search a bit more; otherwise, we have finished the harvesting of the lost crop. |
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Thanks Alex.
I am still working on it, and still finding lost posts when I have time. Remarkably, the internet believes that these are new posts, once they are re-submitted, and this months traffic represents that they are re-accepted as significant posts. |
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Wow! I just found "Beaufort County NOW had a Near Catastrophic Day, but we are Recovering" & read all the comments. Did not know about all the hell you have been going through. Good job!
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Servers and their software are kind of like the human body - a complex thinking machine - that can be very fallible, but with the proper guidance can be saved and improved.
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It prompted me to create a post about digital storage which is in the queue for your review. Most people don't realist how fragile the electronic storage media is when only a speck of dust or a electrical hiccup can wrech havoc. Glad to see you are back to 95+%
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I'm glad you see this B.T. I wish we had backed up more of recent, rather than importing to another surrogate site: pittcountynow.com ; because that did not work out so well.
One must learn from their mistakes, as we continue to do, or cry often, and I am not so good at that whole crying thing. There is no crying in online publishing! When I was a commissioner, I use to believe that when it it did not go one's way in governing (especially for a Conservative in a non Conservative community), one learned something, and moved past it a little, but also: There is no crying in governing! An then now, there is Blubbering Barack. That may create a whole new paradigm for Socialist Liberals. |
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Good news! For people who have never had a hard drive crash with no back up or a very old backup, it is more than just losing a few pictures or emails. If it is a business computer you are essentially dead in the water. I am glad to hear that you have found a solution.
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For all of our contributors that are also sitting in the queue, or still in my e-mail, just know that I aim to clear away all of this backlog so your posts will not be masked, or weighed down by the last reintroduction of the recovered lost posts.