General overhaul of the backup system.

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[Nick(NR)]

Your forum shows up to me as does nascarfans, LFF's is still showing a generaal error, which is weird, using a slightly different link I can get to the index, but it only shows the info with no styling and is showing me people logged in.
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[Nascarfan13]

Here are a few more:


http://sdracing.myfreeforum.org/index.php


and


http://up2speed.slarti3.myfreeforum.org/index.php


Hopefully they will be back up within 48 hours or so.

[LFF]

Lancaster Free forum posters are relentless. They will keep trying, and it is still down. I am still getting emails they cant post. (even though I was able to make a post about the problem) I had to reload, backup, reload until I was able to post a reply. Admin panel is down too. Thanks for tanswering. I know it will be fine soon.


http://lancasteroh.myfreeforum.org/

[namecaps]

"G'day Nick,

Unfortunately, many of our users are experiencing the error (I won't say all, as I've not been in contact with everyone). All are receiving the PHPBB Error; Cannot Reach Database error. We are in different states, and on different ISPs, so nothing is connected except the forum. It is has only been occurring in the last 5 hours, and is consistantly coming up. Sometimes with multiple refreshes, we can access the pages; othertimes, we just keep getting the error. Any help would be appreciated.
thanks

[Nick(NR)]

F.A.O. Admin: found this:

Spoiler: Quote: Posted by rapo on Oct 7th 2008, 07:24 I receive this error intermittently too. My host said: "The error that you occoured happens when an account on the server is opening to many connections to mysql on the server This happens sometimes with poorly written code that leaves connections open and keeps opening more connections. When one account does this it effects the entire mysql server resulting in the error you recieved. The Reason you are receiving this error is due to the ‘‘max_users_connetions’’ setting which is set to 20 users per mysql user. This setting is there to ensure that the MySQL database cannot be overloaded with to many query requests. The queries will reset every hour and is kept by user however every time the pages on your site are accessed you are still attempting to make queries to the database server.""

Nascarfan, namecaps and LFF, those forums you listed are loading for me, some after a few refreshes and one of them first time. Until admin makes a clear post here I can't say if it's realted to the forum backups or not, but it is clearly a database connection issue, that should ease, when that happens I can't be specific on, just think on the good side, if db connections are limited to around 20, more people than allowed are trying to get on your forum
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[LFF]

http://lancasteroh.myfreeforum.org/

You can view the index page. When you click a topic..sometimes you can get in. Then you can't post. Only about 5 posts have made it through this morning.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

This worked for me - see if it works for you guys.

I could only get to my site's index page - after repeated attempts and reminders of "Critical Erorr" etc - but got to it eventually.

So, in an attempt to post and let my members know what's going on and why they can't log-on or post (i.e. MyFF server outage), and just as a punt, I right-clicked on the Board Announcements forum on my site - it opened no problem.

So, once I was in to the Announcements forum, I then right-clicked on an existing thread about the last time the servers here hiccoughed - and happily got the same again, it opened no problem - the upshot is that I was able to post a message telling my members what the issue is, and what is being to done to fix the issue; and that (at time of going to press) there is currently no estimated fix time, and just to hang in there!

You can see it Last post here.

Hope that helps guys - and hope we're all up and running again shortly.!

Thanks to Martin and the staff here - a thankless task at times like this I know! Cheers lads.

[LFF]

http://lancasteroh.myfreeforum.org/

We are back and doing fine. Thank you so much. This support is amazing.

[namecaps]

The [AIM] Clan free forum is back up and working fine
thanks for your help Nick it is much appreciated

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[Nick(NR)]

[admin (no pm's please)]

Well back on topic I'm raising the aggression of the purgatory system again, currently we are only seeing about a 20% gain in backup size, a reflection I think of the fact that search engines are liable to spider many dead forums pulling them back in from the cold.

Having the forums bounce in and out of the system is no big deal at all, the file system moves files in a flash and a move is "failsafe" at the file system level, the existing reference is not removed until the new one is in place.
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[namecaps]

Well thanks for your answers Nick I think that is what kept everybody calm and thanks to the ADMIN and helpers for getting the forums up and running again
Much Appreciated
Namecaps

[admin (no pm's please)]

I'm also tweaking other bits and bobs on the servers and planning other moves to help with load, in these recessionary times it is vital that we utilize the servers as much as we can, it is still the case that we are not really overloaded it is the intermittent spikes from internal processes that seem more responsible for problems than the actual load from the forums.

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