Back up, lost data.

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 03:49 PM

Sorry, folks... It's the best I can do for now!
Enjoy!
Jen

whitewaterbill · 04-01-2002, 03:56 PM

OK...Nice job of getting us back up and fishing COMPUTERS can be a real pain...

We can build back the important stuff in a hurry!!!

Thanks Jen!!!!

Bill

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 03:57 PM

GATORADE! I have cried more tears than I knew I had!!!!
I am SOOOOOOOOOOO dehydrated!
:smile:
J

birdhunter · 04-01-2002, 04:03 PM

Thanks for all your hard work Jen. Sorry you've had to deal with all this trouble.

Phish_on · 04-01-2002, 04:04 PM

The computer geeks in the crowd would like to hear the details of the ordeal - when you've recovered.

Cohodependent · 04-01-2002, 04:05 PM

Ditto to all of the above! What would we do with out you and all of your hard work? We all really appreciate it!

joru · 04-01-2002, 04:06 PM

It will come in short order, Jen. Keep your head up and THANKS.

omnivore · 04-01-2002, 04:12 PM

Jennie, I appreciate your hard work and dedication to making this website a special place that it is. Now, are you gonna go to Disney World?

ampersat · 04-01-2002, 04:12 PM

hooray! it's back! good work jennie!

Rubber Robin · 04-01-2002, 04:15 PM

Great effort!!!!!!!!!! :grin: I know everybody appreciates the fantastic job that you do.

You don't realize how addicted we have become to this site. I went to check something this weekend only to find it down. :shocked: No fishing reports? No fishing tips? No political discussions.

It's good to have it back up! Hope you can get some rest now. :grin: :grin: Thanks again!!!!

Straydog · 04-01-2002, 04:22 PM

Thanks Jennie!

I am sorry for your ordeal.

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 04:25 PM

Here is what I posted on PP...

Brand spankin shiny new server! :smile:
Got up Sunday Morning and ifish was down. Usually, it's just a flip of a switch. My friendly ifish ISP doesn't understand RAID 5, so he hit a couple buttons trying to expedite our return to the world wide web. He hit the wrong one and reinitialized the whole darn thing!
Then... the not so funny comedy of errors continues... He's calls the REAL tech, who really is good, but is human, also.
When tar balling the entire site, he forgets to initiate the program that auto backs ifish up every night.
So, I have a copy of ifish from before the server upgrade, before the infopop upgrades, and I lose one month's postings...
We tried putting the clobbered drives into another system, with a functional
array, and it will not initialize the second array. We can't even try to
look for files.
They are, right now, looking into data recovery, which is rather expensive. However, if the array was re-initialized the striping would have been overwritten making it unrecoverable. Probably not an option.
I'll probably just use the March 9th board and we can be boosted back into time...
:depressed: :depressed: :depressed:
Time to redo the templates, reupload the new smilies, oh....... never mind, but I'll be a busy little springer-less girl. (But then, what's new? :smile: )
Ifish will be back, I just have tons of work to do to get there....
I'd like to go play the piano now, OK?

Jen

garyk · 04-01-2002, 04:30 PM

Thanks Jen for all the hard work on what must be a supremely frustrating situation.

You've certainly earned a few fish - I'm sure you'll be rewarded.

Pete · 04-01-2002, 04:37 PM

Jen,
Thanks for pouring your heart and soul into this. I know it's been traumatic and expensive. Your work to keep Ifish running is well appreciated. THANK YOU!

fish_on · 04-01-2002, 04:43 PM

Besides loosing a month of posts, did you also loose a months worth of new members? Keep up the good work.

roundbelly · 04-01-2002, 04:48 PM

thanks for doing a good make that great job with this web site. you are the best

blacktail · 04-01-2002, 04:55 PM

Thanks Jennie!

Mike

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 04:55 PM

Luckily, we have a hard copy of all new members. We just need to hand feed them to the reg program.
:smile:
Thanks, Registration people!!!!
J

Fishen Fool · 04-01-2002, 04:56 PM

Boy Jennie am I glad you got it running, I thought there for a while I might have to talk to the wife agaiin out of boredom! Do yo thiink I may be hooked or something?

deefly · 04-01-2002, 04:57 PM

Gee Jennie, What a Great Job youve done to get us back up and running! I just turned a work friend (female) onto our site. I just wish I knew which mailbox was yours so I could drop off some tokens of my appreciation! Is it the one with the fish through it? You do a Splendid Job as always!
Deefly
(thinks to self....."wait a minute...wheres that flyboard!? [only joking!])
KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB SKIPPER!

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24 on/ 48 off · 04-01-2002, 05:02 PM

Great to see you back on-line, Jen.

--spud-- :smile:

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 05:06 PM

Fly board is up.
j

Drachir · 04-01-2002, 05:12 PM

Jenny,

I can only imagine the turmoil, and tears you have had to go through. I'm glad you got a BB back up, even w/o the last months posts. I'm sure we can all get by, Flotilla 4 will still happen, and life will go on for us all!!

Jennie@ifish · 04-01-2002, 05:33 PM

The flotilla thread...... ohhhhhhhhhhh don't tell me more.
I'm sure there will be lots of things we'll be sad to miss.
I am so awfully sorry.
:depressed:
So much work and fun went into that.
Jen

CAGEY · 04-01-2002, 09:18 PM

Thankyou Jennie, i was about to make an appointment with a shrink because i missed ifish and all the ifishers so much. One doe's not realize how much they enjoy something until it is taken away from them.

Artwo · 04-02-2002, 07:04 AM

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh that's it, my ifish fix. I was gone for five days and came back on-line Monday morning looking to get my ifish fix and.................nnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooo. I was going through some serious withdrawls yesterday, cold sweats, the shakes, even a slight fever I think, but finally, I'm able to get my ifish fix................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that's better.

Jen, you are ausome and this is the best fishing site out there with the best group of people behind you, thanks for your enormous effort to get us all our ifish fix.

JK

ampersat · 04-02-2002, 08:18 AM

it sounds like we're only out a months worth of info. not too bad for a disaster of this nature. i'm guessing they'll be re-evaluating the backup plans after this.

on the way in this morning i was thinking about all of this and it dawned on me that the infamous north river thread might have seen it's demise.

wetaline · 04-02-2002, 08:20 AM

Thanks Jennie! ... I didn't realize how addicted I am to this site till it was gone for a day... Although I did get more done at work....

plus I had my first realy good day on the river this spring and no where to brag about it! :smile:

Slow Roll · 04-02-2002, 12:09 PM

Jennie,
At this time anything is better than nothing.

You ahve been doing an incredible job with this site and I am glad to see that you have gotten most of it back. What was lost can be regained. I have two servers that routinely give me the run-around so I know your pain.

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Paul B.

On a mission · 04-02-2002, 12:17 PM

Some times you don't realize what you have till you loose it. Thanks for the hard work I know this is your life, everyone can tell how much you put into this. Keep in there. Remember some days are diamonds and some days are stones. Those big boulders really are tough.

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husker · 04-02-2002, 01:33 PM

serious applause for jennie!!!

Jennie@ifish · 04-02-2002, 11:15 PM

Back, but very s l o w .... We really need our new server back!!!!
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