[OLD] The Tracker Down & Up Thread

**The Shutter** · 09.09.10, 01:00

Originally Posted by Sb Lover

hd space is down I think ! I can't get in !!
it is now very slow !

working fine with me

**tokiodrift1** · 09.09.10, 01:25

Originally Posted by anon

Hey td1, nice to see you around.

PiN's also down here, for a while already. I saw this on FST:

Same over here, it's a pleasure to be back.

Looks like that I've to delete my PIN-bookmark..

**caballero** · 10.09.10, 10:04

what.cd has been down for a long time now (2 or 3 days I guess), it shows the following message:

Quit speculating and don't panic. We are still here and will be back up shortly. We don't have an ETA but we are working on the issue. Please bear with us, there are many more surprises when we come back. In the meantime why don't you join us on irc.what.cd #what.cd [irc client|mibbit].

the staff

Reading the news about the anti-piracy raid; maybe another Oink scene is coming

---------- Post added at 09:04 ---------- Previous post was at 00:04 ----------

What.cd is up:

Spoiler Announcement:

We're back!

Secondly, you guys deserve an explanation of exactly what went down in the last few days, there's no easy way to give bad news.

There was a database crash on our main server which corrupted all of our data. The good news is, we have managed to recover almost all of the database. As fate would have it however, the tables that we were unable to recover included those for torrents, and those for users. This, of course, is where our backup solution would come into play. Due to the size of our database, and the importance of uptime, some conventional methods of backing up are unavailable to us, and we opted for a method that gave you no downtime. However, the backups themselves, due to an oversight on our part, were not correctly implemented and as such, torrents and users are now rolled back to the last available good back up taken ~1 month ago. We did manage to recover some data from the corrupted tables, so some recent torrents could be saved. Also, stats (upload and download) are recovered from 10 days ago.

What this means to your account: If you joined before 1 month ago, congratulations, you just got 10 days worth of free downloading on your account as your stats have rolled back.

If you joined after the cutoff however, don't worry, we have got your email addresses and have sent every single one of the lost users a new invite. If you want to be re-associated with your old activity (Forum posts, PMs etc.) then PM a staff member with the necessary information.

If you know somebody who joined after the cutoff, tell them they've been re-invited.

What this means to the torrents: We can't sugar coat it, we lost a lot of torrents. To try and get us back up to speed we will have a 6 hour freeleech on all new uploads when we've taken a look at the tracker. To repeat: there is no freeleech right now, we will make a new announcement when there is.

We will obviously be spending time in the coming days developing a new backup strategy that won't leave us in this horrible situation again, but may require small stints of downtime while we set them up.

**The Shutter** · 10.09.10, 10:10

what.cd is back again

all new accounts are lost , new invites are sent ,,,some users lost upload credit

**saebrtooth** · 10.09.10, 10:21

Quit speculating and don't panic. We are still here and will be back up shortly. We don't have an ETA but we are working on the issue. Please bear with us, there are many more surprises when we come back. In the meantime why don't you join us on irc.what.cd #what.cd [irc client|mibbit]. the staff

lol I thought the surprises were gona be good

**anon** · 10.09.10, 14:12

Hey, at least there's freeleech for 6 hours on all new uploads. This means you can do what the cool BT kids do nowadays - get a seedbox, autodownload everything, buffer the shit of out your account, then refrain yourself to hit & running from your home connection.

Thanks for the info, caballero!

**Extraterrestrial** · 10.09.10, 15:24

What is down again!

**caballero** · 10.09.10, 15:33

Originally Posted by Extraterrestrial

What is down again!

Brb!
lol

The last line in the announcement mentioned about down times happening frequently these days.

We will obviously be spending time in the coming days developing a new backup strategy that won't leave us in this horrible situation again, but may require small stints of downtime while we set them up.