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Dunno what the problem was this morning, but PBW was up again when I checked a few minutes ago.

capnq
PBW admin

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We've had some sort of disk failure on the server. The drive which has all the game versions and most of the site data was throwing errors and when I rebooted windows did a disk check and it looks like we lost a large part of the data on that drive. I'm trying to figure out if I can recover it. We are looking at a few days down time I'm guessing at best.

Geoschmo

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:O Is there backups?

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Unfortunately our backup strategy wasn't exactly very well thought out. We are working on a plan to try and recover the data. I hope to have some news in a few days.

Geoschmo

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Are there problems beyond the loss of game information? Is there hardware that needs to be replaced?

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We don't know yet whether the harddrive itself is still usable.

The current situation is that the failed HD is here in Pittsburgh, where a friend of mine who is an IT professional is going to look at what files are salvagable. I haven't seen her yet to give her the drive, and I don't know how long the recovery process will take.

capnq
PBW admin

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If she's anything like the hardware guys I know, once she gets it, it won't take long to form an opinion. The reason I asked was because I'd like to make a small donation toward the repair, replacement, etc.

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I don't think I'd trust the drive in any case. Once a hard drive starts flaking out, I don't really like to use it unless it's just for unimportant stuff. If it's recoverable, the hardware isn't that expensive to replace.

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I just returned to the fold after a multi-year hiatus. Has PBW been moved? How are people playing by web these days?

Just found it: http://sepbw.nightscapecreations.com/home.cfm

Thanks,
DB

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