Absolutely everything gone?

Teletori · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Norway

Mitch or someone?

Is there a backup of the old posts, and youre working on it? Question

Or is it lost forever?

I know backing up things can take time, just wondering how bad it is.

freedan · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1469 Location: Mohawk Valley

I just realized that the cached PM's are gone too. Sad

That is a bummer since I saved several that I received that were working on planning trips for later this winter.

Medeba Guy! · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 468 Location: Haliburton, Canada

It sure looks gone to me. Sad

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Brent · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2392 Location: Denver

Gwen · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 3037

The posts between Sept 2003 and Dec 3 are gone. The site was attacked and the intruder once discoved became immediately destructive. Most of the Video and the static parts of site Mitch fortunately either had backups or I was able to recover. However, much is not avaliable yet because we focused on getting the site up and running. So pretty much all the stuff that was stored in "freeheelskier.com" domain hasn't been brought online yet. The indexing pages were laced with the attacker's grafitti. Rght now we really don't want to get into the nitty gritty of the attack as it is being investigated.

The post database From Sep 2003 till the attack this past Thursday was destoyed and overwritten making it a lost cause. I was down to wiring sectors together and its way too far gone to recover. There wasn't a backup to restore it from. The older forum (prior to Sep 2003) looks mostly intact but has to be put back together by hand.

With the recovery we put the talk site on a much more capaible server, with all software updated to current levels and stronger security protection. I will work with Mitch on scheduled backups of the post database and the site content.

Please be patient Its gonna take a week or two to get it all sorted out.
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Kristin S · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

Wow. Thank you so much Gwen for any and everything you did to help Mitch out. I'm blown away by all of this.

vtRat · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 542 Location: Vermont

Medeba Guy! · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 468 Location: Haliburton, Canada

Thanks for the explanation Gwen. I don't understand the mindset of hackers. Don't they have anything better to do with their time? If discovered I suggest that they be prosecuted to the maximum.
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Eric O · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 5333 Location: Tahoe City

What Kristin said. Neutral

jonal · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 198 Location: Oslo, Norway

Ditto
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Caleb · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 283

Thanks to Mitch, Gwen, and anyone else who has worked so tirelessly to get this board back up this quickly. I am amazed. Considering the magnitude and virulence of the attack, I would have expected the Board to remain down for several more days at least.

Biff · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2207 Location: Maine

Gwen · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 3037

Thank you Caleb, a very nice story and very appropriate
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MWTele · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks Gwen, Mitch and everyone else involved for getting this back up and running. I was about to turn myself in to the hospital for an addiction program.

granular · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 302 Location: Southern Ontario

Festival and event organizers, remember to re-post in the events forum.

Mitch, Gwen -- thanks for the work. Rebuilding a server like this is a huge job (they say don't sweat the details, but it's all details).

--Louis