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Hard disks got crash from three two fully, one partially after 24 hours fight to rescue data in an impossible mission I did give it up.
What we lost ?
All images from 2012 04 to 2014 June posted on forum
All posts from Aug 03 early morning to Aug 03 around noon.

I am not sure how can I recover lost images may I can't Sad I did backup last full from images 2012 , partially backup was done at every day from actual month, I didn't expect this full crash Sad


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Look from the bright side, we are back. Thanks for all the effort you have put in to recover the forum.

Last edited by my_photography on Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:01 am; edited 1 time in total


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seems everything works now include image upload


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Thank you for your support!!


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Thanks for all your efforts and hard work!


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Thank you!!


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email sending not works yet, so no email from anything.


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Thanks for the hard work!


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Thanks Attila


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Thank you for your efforts, I was very worried when I can't access the forum last night.


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Thank you for your support!!


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Thanks for your efforts Attila, I had a 1TB crash just a few hours ago and feel for you.... Wink


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Thank you for getting the site back up and running, Attila. For the last two days I just figured you must have replied to one of those e-mails asking for help transferring a vast fortune for a deceased king.


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Thank you for getting the site back up and running, Attila. For the last two days I just figured you must have replied to one of those e-mails asking for help transferring a vast fortune for a deceased king.


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There may be some bugs, still. I clicked submit three times because each time I received an e-mail not sent, DEBUG MODE error referencing something php.


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Here's the exact error:

Failed sending email :: PHP ::

DEBUG MODE

Line : 234
File : emailer.php


It only happens when I reply, not when I post a new thread.


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Hi Attila, thank you for such quick reaction and all your work. Images could be reuploaded by users I think. That's great you've got us back. Thank you.

Mateusz

I've encountered the same bug as David mentioned, when I tried submit this reply. I thought message didn't get posted, but it looked it posted as many times as I clicked. (I've deleted unwanted posts quickly).


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Great work Attila! Thank you!


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Thank you Attila for getting the forum back up and running.


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Thanks for your efforts Attila!
I'm very sorry for the lost images. I can see that the "Lens Gallery" section was lost, too. So many years of your daily work lost in a second. Very big loss, not only for the forum members but for the entire world wide community of old lenses lovers. It will take time until it will be rebuild. Crying or Very sad
I don't know... Maybe is a good idea from now on to ask members to locally backup on their HDs the entire topics they are creating, including images, or at least their posts with their images.


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You may be able to rescue the pictures as well, but only by sending the physical disk to a specialized company Wink

Do you run your own server? Surprised


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Thanks indeed for this place being back. I was entertaining thoughts of drives being raided by the Police because of dive bar topics Razz

Given how much I missed this place over the last couple of days, Time I find my that link to your PayPal account


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Dear Attila.

Thank you very, very much for restoring the forum.
Be sure we'll do our best to reload pictures if you need.

That recalls me I haven't made a serious backup since months...
That's absolutely not serious.

We support your efforts Attila.
You must be exhausted. I had this kind of experiment in the past and my heart and brain knocked so strongly I had the impression I was going to fall on ground.

Friendly greetings.