Talkrational Crashed and Burned

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Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by cronus » Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:44 am

No back up. Everything lost to the ether. You can visit the shell like ruins at their new site though. It's a good time to pick up survivors and relocate them here? :read:
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Hermit » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:35 am

Crumple wrote:No back up. Everything lost to the ether. You can visit the shell like ruins at their new site though. It's a good time to pick up survivors and relocate them here? :read:
Not so keen to see the likes of Bart over here.

Mind you, there are some really good posters at TR, though. Shame we can't winnow out the chaff.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by cronus » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:55 am

Hermit wrote:
Crumple wrote:No back up. Everything lost to the ether. You can visit the shell like ruins at their new site though. It's a good time to pick up survivors and relocate them here? :read:
Not so keen to see the likes of Bart over here.

Mind you, there are some really good posters at TR, though. Shame we can't winnow out the chaff.
Papa needs to make a visit? He's good at separating the wheat from the chaff with his dialectical methods.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:48 am

No back up? :fp:
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by cronus » Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:51 am

eRv wrote:No back up? :fp:
They are a pompous lot....probably thought the cloud would provide? :nono:
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Hermit » Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:54 am

eRv wrote:No back up? :fp:
This is the email I received from the person who set the forum up:
Hi,

This is ravenscape from talkrational.org. I'm contacting you because I *think* you have visited TR at least once during the last 6 months or so.

TR's database crashed on May 23. The webhost, Arvixe, farted around, put us off for over a week, and then informed us they no longer had an uncorrupted backup of the site.

TR is not dead, though!

For the time being, it is here: http://tr.mcfrye.com/

Please feel free to head over and join the discussion about TR's future.

You will need to register. It's not a copy of the original TR.


This is my personal website. I've installed some forum software (the software I wanted us to eventually move to). Having the forum on my tiny site not a long term solution, but while we figure out if we can get the database back, and figure out what webhost we'd like to move to, my site can host us.

We're still working and researching to see if we can recover the old threads, but the site itself is badly cratered and we're anxious to sever ties with Arvixe as soon as feasible. And I think it's a long shot that we'll actually get a working copy of the full database back, but we do have access to all the data on TR except for the threads themselves.

Hope to see you on the TR Zombie Forum soon!

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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:18 pm

That is not much good but TR was never lively. Putting messages in bottles would have been faster.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:57 pm

The TR clique made the Ratz clique look like a herd of cats.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:06 pm

eRv wrote:The TR clique made the Ratz clique look like a herd of cats.
That is putting it mildly. I never liked the place.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by laklak » Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:36 pm

What clique?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Jun 05, 2016 4:24 pm

You dont realise it when you are part of it.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:03 pm

The rational thing to do would be to back up the database every day.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Hermit » Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:50 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:The rational thing to do would be to back up the database every day.
These days that's part of the contract with the company that owns the server. Not much you can do when the host does not fill his part of the contract and leaves the customer in the dark about it.
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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by rachelbean » Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:04 pm

Not if you run your own virtual server. We rent space at digital ocean, but the actual running of the server, including backups is up to us (which we do nightly). In any case they are big enough I don't think it will likely be something we have to worry about.

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Re: Talkrational Crashed and Burned

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:34 pm

Our little corner of the internet could probably be backed up each night in long hand. :D
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