We're back online (downtime explanation from 6/29-7/3)

E. Long · 2006-07-03T13:46:08-06:00

DOWNTIME ANNOUNCEMENT 6/29-7/3 On Wednesday, June 29th, 2006, we experienced severe hardware failure on the SuperMotors server. The hardware failure was the result of our primary and backup drives simulatenously dying. The crash has forced us to resort to an old backup of SuperMotors from 5/14/06. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR USERS New Users Anyone who registered for an account on SuperMotors between 5/14/06 and 6/29/06 will need to re-register. You may do so at: http://www.supermotors.net/join/index.php Lost Media Files Any media files, registry entries, forum posts, or any data added to the site between 5/14/06 and 6/29/06 will need to be re-posted. Hosted Websites If we hosted your personal or club website, please contact us via the support page and provide us with your username and password so we may set you up again with hosting: http://www.supermotors.net/support E-mail For yearly subscribers who used our e-mail services, please contact us via the support page and provide us with your e-mail address and password and we will reinstate your account: http://www.supermotors.net/support WILL THIS HAPPEN AGAIN? We are taking the necessary steps to have all files backed up on a separate, local server, as well as a remote server to prevent this situation from happening again. Hardware does fail on servers and there's nothing that can be done to prevent this type of failure. What we are doing is preventing data loss from happening in this magnitude. Despite our best efforts to keep backup copies of user-posted media, we still highly recommend you save copies of your files on your own computer. Due to the volume of data, we cannot keep real-time backups. Should a crash of this nature happen again in the future, we will have a more recent backup (days vs. months) to restore from. If you have any questions or concerns, I encourage you to post them here. I will be happy to answer them. Thanks,

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Fiero5

Member since Aug 2005
1 post
W. Lebanon, NH, USA
4 vehicles in the registry

Aug 25, 2006 at 7:53 PM

Wow, almost everything I had is now gone except for some pics of the first car I submitted
Can I get the batch load as well please? That would be a big help for me at this point.
Thanks

E. LongOP

Member since Jan 2001
2,229 posts
Atlanta, GA, USA
10 vehicles in the registry

Aug 27, 2006 at 11:39 AM

Quote:

Wow, almost everything I had is now gone except for some pics of the first car I submitted
Can I get the batch load as well please? That would be a big help for me at this point.
Thanks

You're all setup on the batch posting.

Thanks,

-Eric

'67 Galaxie 500 - 390 FE, .030" over, FE to AOD adapter, disc brake conversion. The Daily Driver.
'00 Excursion - 7.3L PSD, LANDYOT Gen-II Radius Rods, Factory Tech Valve Body, 200K+ miles and going

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