Server Downtime and Data Loss

by **bigWham** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:14 am

In the late evening of Oct 3 (CC Time) one of our core system data tables suffered data loss and could not be recovered.

The only efficient solution was to roll back our entire database to the most recent backup, which happened to be approximately 24 hours before.

Unfortunately all data from the period between the backup and the event has been lost, including moves made, games started, chat, private messages and forum posts.

Everything is back and running now and 24 hours have been added to all game timers.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will be crediting Premium Members with a 2 days of extension to their Membership, and Freemiums with 4 free speed games in recognition.

Sincerely,
A weary Admin crew.

by **wi1bert** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:23 am

Sounds like a horrible 24 hours for you guys. Well done and thank you.

by **timrs2001** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:24 am

Well that's a drag but it's certainly better than the alternative. Thanks for the quick work.

by **EminenceGrise** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:25 am

Well done team, those of us in the backup and restore of data salute you.

by **Dustin45** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:26 am

A simple sorry would be better then offering something that doesnt help with the problem that 24 hours of data loss created. I understand that things happen . So good job that it wasnt worse than 24 hours. CAuse im sure if it was more than 24 hours of lost data there would not be many people that would have faith and continue playing on a site than cant do a back up.

by **hyposquasher** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:26 am

Thanks much for your efforts in the restore. The IT/Infrastructure side of things is exactly what I do for a living. These kind of high-tension outages suck. At least you had backups. Nicely done.

by **curiousone1** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:29 am

These things happen. Pleased all is back up and appr

eciate the membership extension

by **Artimis** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:29 am

That explains why all my games vanished.

by **L M S** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:30 am

Dang. Sounds like a mess.
Glad I picked yesterday to work on the bot medal, about 50 times

by **sarphinius** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:30 am

Nice works, folks. Get some sleep, you earned it!

by **betiko** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:31 am

had some turns that really went well and that went bad for the opponent.. I guess dice don't keep this kind of stuff into consideration? lol..

by **benga** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:33 am

Can you slow down a bit in your updates and new things, there have been a lot of setbacks lately.

by **generalmighty** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:35 am

That is great news. I lost a 20 v 4 roll yesterday afternoon.

by **tarareinhart** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:35 am

Terrible

by **robchask** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:36 am

These things happen no problem

by **ausprime** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:37 am

It's Ok. I'm fine with taking my turn again xD

by **iAmCaffeine** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:37 am

We've experienced this in work before and it's a real pain. Still, this is incredibly frustrating for our current clan war as moves that had already been played, whether as we wanted or not, now have to be re-made and have so far all gone terribly.

benga wrote:Can you slow down a bit in your updates and new things, there have been a lot of setbacks lately.

+1

by **lutherxyz** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:38 am

just one the Best game ever played here!!! 12 player and went to capt.. now i wont win unless i get lucky and repeats.. dont think that will happen!! Go Cardinals!!!!!

by **Evil Semp** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:39 am

betiko wrote:had some turns that really went well and that went bad for the opponent.. I guess dice don't keep this kind of stuff into consideration? lol..

I had some turns that went bad for me a good for the other guy.

by **Metalmarsh89** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:39 am

Ah, that's why my games are missing. Thanks for the message, and sorry to hear that.

by **timrs2001** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:40 am

Dustin45 wrote:well the four freemium games doesnt help when i have 7 games going already. Makes me happy I dont pay for this anymore

How do you have 7 games going when you don't pay to be on here? I can only get 4.

by **blakebowling** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:40 am

benga wrote:Can you slow down a bit in your updates and new things, there have been a lot of setbacks lately.

Just to note: This wasn't caused by an update. Database corruption is something that happens occasionally. (To put it in perspective, the last time CC had data loss like this was in 2010).

by **Armandolas** on Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:43 am

Well, it happens.
1 day reverted is not so bad, and i can easily forget the annoyance of repeating some turns again(some in benefit, some not so much)