forum content that was posted from Feb 20 2006 through the end of July
2006.
So this is a call for reposting of worthy forum content which our users
might have saved locally.
What should be re-posted? Topics originally posted by you which required
a significant amount of effort to create and which are likely to be of
interest to a broad range of pilots. Examples: descriptions of XC
flights, including those for the Region IX contests; milestone flights (first
high flight, first soaring flight, etc); lessons learned and accident reports;
flying stories from trips outside the local area; etc.
Here's an example of a reposted topic that I've just created:
http://chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1792
Please use "REPOST: " as a prefix for the Subject of the post, so that
users will know that the content is old, and can choose to skip it if they
don't want to see it again.
Daniel: Do you have anything from your CA and Mexico adventure?
Joe, Bruce, Gary, Spark, et al : Do you have anything from your 2006
trips out west?
Lauren and Paul: Do you have any saved flight reports from the Worlds?
Hank and Larry B: What about your Region IX XC flights?
Many thanks for any efforts you can make to help us recover lost content!
Mark C.
PS: My mistake with the previous provider was in assuming that the
server for the website and the database server were on different boxes.
So keeping database backups at the website seemed relatively safe.
The odds of both boxes going down at once should be fairly low, right?
Well, they were on the same box.
When it crashed we lost boththe website and the forum content, and the last backup I'd actually
downloaded to home was way out of date, Feb 20 2006. And our provider
claimed that all backups that they had made were 'corrupted' : no explanation
and I doubt they were even performing any. Needless to say,
our backup procedures are now much more paranoid. Been over 24 hrs
since the last one, and I'm already starting to get itchy!
