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Spinomania

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All characters gone ?
« on: March 28, 2009, 07:01:54 AM »
Just launched the City info trackers:


@Spinomania's Public Character List

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I had 59 yesterday...

Any idea ?

I hope I won't have to go through all the character initialization  again
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Steiner

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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2009, 07:07:41 AM »
lol, Yea, Steiner broke it (again)

Testing out a new web service for Skip/HS... sadly I used "update" instead of "insert".

Thankfully there are sql backups nightly... just gotta find em.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2009, 07:29:32 AM »
IT IS NOT APRIL 1st YET!
Not a funny joke, nooooooot funny!
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2009, 07:36:38 AM »
No, not an April's fool joke.

I was told that there was nightly backups, but never shown how to restore said backups. I'd refrain from using HS or Glycerine in the meantime.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2009, 08:06:16 AM »
Quote from: Steiner on March 28, 2009, 07:36:38 AM
No, not an April's fool joke.

I was told that there was nightly backups, but never shown how to restore said backups. I'd refrain from using HS or Glycerine in the meantime.

May want to put something on the front page saying that if it will be a while until the backups are in place.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2009, 10:57:52 AM »
Good to know you can fix this, I nearly had a heart attack for a moment!   :o
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2009, 02:25:16 PM »
Ya so did I,

And SuckerPunch is the only one who knows how to restore it.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2009, 02:44:37 PM »
Quote from: Steiner on March 28, 2009, 07:07:41 AM
lol, Yea, Steiner broke it (again)

Testing out a new web service for Skip/HS... sadly I used "update" instead of "insert".

Thankfully there are sql backups nightly... just gotta find em.

Have you checked under the bed? That's where I always find the things I've lost :P

Seriously, thanks for the warning on the front page and best of luck getting it fixed :)
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2009, 05:51:03 PM »
This also changed the Avys and Sig Items here pertaining to CIT.  I have Steiner in my Avy and Sig slots :P.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2009, 07:03:00 PM »
Quote from: Tazhyngarth on March 28, 2009, 05:51:03 PM
This also changed the Avys and Sig Items here pertaining to CIT.  I have Steiner in my Avy and Sig slots :P.

You could just change them for now....
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2009, 07:04:44 PM »
Well. Idk, I asked SuckerPunch (the only person who can properly restore) to help and I got an "..." and he closed the chat... so I have no idea what the hell is going on.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2009, 07:28:12 PM »
I started glycerine and it added my main back...I hope this doesn't cause problems restoring my data.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2009, 09:19:48 PM »
Shouldn't hurt anything.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2009, 04:15:04 PM »
Is there any update on this issue?
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2009, 04:30:03 PM »
Yea.

Bad news; sadly the backups were set to backup on SuckerPunch's old machine, which crashed 3 days ago. And he's quite annoyed with me on that front, because this isn't the first time he'd have to save my butt from screw ups like this.

So I don't think we're getting back any of the messed up records.

I know it's pain in the "you know what" but we're going to have to reload all of our characters back on via Glycerine. I know HUGE pain in the duke.

There are measures being taken to ensure these things don't happen again.

http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,2153.msg24112.html#msg24112

My sincerest apologies for this mess up. I swear it won't happen again!
« Last Edit: March 29, 2009, 05:05:32 PM by Steiner »
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2009, 05:20:10 PM »
...hoo boy. Well I know what I'll be doing for tonight x_X My biggest regret will be having the date my char was created on site here because it was pretty much the only reminder I had when exactly I rolled a new char.

Is the bug where badge counts were being reported higher than the ingame # fixed?
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2009, 05:21:55 PM »
I don't believe so, I will take a look at it as soon as I have this sorted.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2009, 05:45:32 PM »
Never mind mate. I bet (hope) it won't happen like that again :o

Oh well just have to log all in again. I might even play that alt I've been ignoring for so long ;)
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2009, 07:39:22 PM »
Quote from: Steiner on March 29, 2009, 05:21:55 PM
I don't believe so, I will take a look at it as soon as I have this sorted.

Okay, cuz I think I'll hold off on going through and doing the settitle thing for my characters until that's sorted.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2009, 08:11:09 PM »
You can do that, the count is wrong on the site, it will reflect the right count once fixed without you having to do anything extra.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2009, 09:07:41 PM »
Quote from: Steiner on March 29, 2009, 08:11:09 PM
You can do that, the count is wrong on the site, it will reflect the right count once fixed without you having to do anything extra.

Not entirely true. On most of my toons, the extra badges where accolades that were mis-counted from what appeared to be a settitle offset with the last issue (I13 and the Day Job Accolades). This occurs at the moment of confirmation. As far as I know, confirmed badges will not be auto deleted from the db. I've had to manually delete these each time.

Now I just have to re-load 264 toons, their Badges and photos for my friend in Iraq, and my 115... Maybe I'll just spend a week getting map served on the I14 Beta every 30 minutes (might be funner).
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2009, 11:52:50 PM »
AHHHH crap, Your right. MavX pointed this out to me... I had put some "related badge" logic in our badge admin tool and when Day Jobs were released, they didn't exactly meet the logic causing more badges added than it should.

Emailing Topic to myself to remind me to finish fix this before the day is out.

Wow, you guys are just laying on the guilt... ouch...
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2009, 05:14:50 AM »
Quote from: Steiner on March 29, 2009, 11:52:50 PM

Wow, you guys are just laying on the guilt... ouch...

Sorry. Was just a little frustrated. Like had been said elsewhere... I'd rather have it than not. I'd have to write the bloody thing myself and my spreadsheet is cumbersome enough as it is.
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Re: All characters gone ?
« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2009, 12:43:10 PM »
I can understand your frustration, be securely happy that measures have been taken to avoid this from never happening again. (Though they were taken before this, but as you have it, bad luck + my stupidity = broken CIT)
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