toothycat.net outage

[toothycat]

Unfortunately, the company that currently hosts www.toothycat.net has suffered a major data loss last night.

It is looking increasingly unlikely that they will be able to recover our data in any reasonable time if at all. So I will be configuring a fresh machine and restoring data from my own backup later today, as soon as they are ready for me to do so. I last took a full backup of the server on the 15th of March (I suck), and I realise many people who have webspace with us will have uploaded changes since then. I will send an email to let people know when it is safe to log in and overwrite the old data I will restore with their own backups. Until then toothycat.net will be down and/or glitchy.

I am really sorry about this ;_;

(Email, for those of you who use us for email, is unaffected, as that machine is sitting in our living room and not in a data centre in York).

Update: new VM is up, but they've given us 2Gb disk space instead of the 20Gb we used to have (I assume they typoed... ^^;), which isn't enough to even upload the backup archive never mind decompress it. Waiting for fix.

Update: we have disk space! Have started uploading the tarball. scp says ETA 24 hours >.< I need a faster net connection.

Update: 24 hours was optimistic, transfer is BLOODY SLOW. If it does not improve, tonight I will shove the tarball onto a USB key and drive it over to somewhere that is actually connected to the internet in some better fashion than two cups and a piece of string.

Update: Got data somewhere with, y'know, a net connection. 2 hours, much more like it; so, should be over around 1am. Then I have to untar it (in two passes; had to break the tarball up into little bits due to filesize restrictions in inferior commercial operating systems) and spend an hour or two wrestling the server into submission since it's not a complete image but only /home and /etc. Hopefully be ready end of lunchtime tomorrow.

Comments

[emperor]

Ouch. I hope they manage to get the data back.

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

My condolences ^^;

[aneiryn.livejournal.com]

Oh noes. Hope it works out alright.

[railwaymouse.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

Oh noes!

[(Anonymous)]

Hope it all gets sorted out soon!

Dave

[douglas-reay.livejournal.com]

I hope Morag's drawings are ok and won't need rescanning.

[toothycat]

None of the artists edit stuff directly on the server, so I expect people will generally have local copies of whatever they last uploaded even if they weren't deliberately in the habit of taking backups. I know Morag does.

[wrh-2005.livejournal.com]

Wowzers! Bad luck Serge, I hope you get it sorted eventually.

Actually I wonder whether you could host your own now; not that it would stop these mishaps but at least you'd be in control so to speak. Internet connections have improved a lot in recent years especially upload as you'll likely know. If you had for instance BE* broadband (ADSL2) you'd be able to get up to 2meg upload and up to 24meg down, not certain what that means in terms of it's ablility to host a website well enough to be of use but it's got to be better than the old 256kbit uploads we used to get.

If I can get that here in crumby Dewsbury I'm sure you could in Silicon fen. ;)

I'd imagine one day you'd get fibre down there too something which might mean 50 meg ups and downs, I'd imagine that would be just what you need. :)

[toothycat]

As you know I used to host my own; but since we moved it is not feasible. Only Pipex supply ADSL at our exchange (Cambridge Science Park exchange, natch!), and there is no ADSL2; 256kbps upstream is all I can get. Hence 24 hour ETA for restoring from backup.

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

Doh.

If you were here (EBI / Sanger) you could do it very quickly, but I suppose that doesn't help a great deal.

[sonia-leong.livejournal.com]

Bums! Hope things recover smoothly T_T

[(Anonymous)]

If you want I can upload it for you at Jesus if you can get it to me. qqzm

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Suuck.