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Thanks Pinky and donbot, I get pulled in a million directions and have a very short attention span *squirrel * Feel free to keep bugging me if I didnt do something I said I would. Sorry

everyone needs to calm down. No need to panic, nothing is going to happen to BZ because of that thread.

Not 100% sure, the only restriction I found in the admin was 150px width, but didn't see anything relating to height. I just briefly searched. but a while ago we went back and forth on what the ideal size should be and we settled on this 150px.

Everyone, Please stop posting SI 2013 images, either whole or in part. They are escalating the threat of legal action against BZ. If this continues I will have to lock the thread. We would really appreciate everyone's cooperation with this. Thank you. ~BZ admins

At the request of Time Warner Inc please do not post the leaked copy of the cover. Thank you

... And the images are back Let me know if I missed any.

looks fine to me. What do you see wrong? Can you post a screenshot?

I got a new one last weekend, it lasted about 30mins until it died, they just shipped out the new one on Friday overnight, I will have it on monday and I shall try agian. Hopefully it works this time and lasts longer...

Update - Will continue the effort tomorrow, ran into a few issues and gotta go back to Datacenter

First please ignore the 20-30mins of downtime we just had. I am losing my mind and after fixing the old server I accidentaly shut off the website on the new server (I was trying to stop it on the old one...). And second, I just got back from the Datacenter and installed the new RAID card. So tonight I will merge the two machines and the images shall be back. ETA 4-6 hours

Welcome to BZ, hope you like it here

8 posts since when?

They will reappear. The RMA is running a bit late, so early next week they should be back.

^ sure was under 30mins and some DB issues.

damn... THE joker.... long time. Welcome back

^ what he said Sometime in the next week or so they should be restored.

No images should be lost and should be restored in the next week, just the posts made in the 14 hour span were lost. Ill let you all know once I receive the new RAID card hopefully before the end of the week.

Yup feel free to change it. Everything is running fine for now and no additional data should be lost.

I'm a bit confused by this ... so only the posts (now empty) uploaded via the site's upload function from December will reappear? And NONE prior to the 14 hours in January? If that is the case, then more than 14 hours of posts have been lost. Please clarify. BTW, thank you, as always, for all your hard work in restoring BZ from its latest disaster. Posts are stored in the DB, since the "main" BZ server crashed, I setup BZ on the secondary server with the previous days backups. That DB backup was from midnight the night before. Once I get the main BZ server back up I would have access to those posts but its impossible for me to "merge" them with the DB and the posts that will be current in say 5 days from now. Now the images, I didn't have daily backups (since its so many), I do monthly type backups. Once the "main" server comes back though I *CAN* merge images easily, because they reside on the filesystem, so its a simple copy and paste. Once I do that, the missing images from Dec 6th -> Jan 9th will reappear. Thats why I can restore the missing attachments, but cant restore the missing posts. Hope thats kinda clear. And you live and you learn, I will add the images to my daily backup job so there would be a much smaller loss.

No, sorry any posts, PM's that were sent during the 14 hours span from the last backup to when we failed over was lost. Sorry

Please see the website downtime announcement. The images will be restored sometime next week

Yes that is the stuff that will reapper.

You are fine to post new images And yes, only 14 hours of posts are lost and sometime next week the images from the last month will magically reappear.

Sorry the posts are gone, once I get the machine back up I would be able to see the posts but there is no way to "merge" them with what would be the curent database. Regarding "images" I am refering to images uploaded using the upload function and Avatars and sigs that have been uploaded over the last month. What do you mean about topics showing 5 instead of 3 pages? Anything done in the last 14 or so hours was lost. Sorry

Everyone. We had a failure on our RAID controller and after much trying to revive it we decided to fail over to our backup machine. We lost a few posts (backup was from 1am) and have lost about a month worth of images (temporarily). Once we receive the new RAID controller early next week we will sync up the images again to restore them. Sorry for the inconvenience.