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macadamia

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Silver wrote:
Did I understand this right? All lvl 36- won't exist anymore? 


Not entirely true, as is evident with the fact that my character is still around. I was like lvl 34 when everything got lost, and right now my character is just at lvl 30. So basically, mine wasn't completely lost so I think that if you were below lvl 36 that there is a good chance that your character is still around.

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I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the well wishes and support. Y'all are great! I feel like I have an extended cyber-family.

Thanks for being so understanding and sweet.


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With out yall 2 we wouldn't have this great server to play on where just thanking you for the great work yall have put into it -=]
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Shadow-X wrote:
With out yall 2 we wouldn't have this great server to play on where just thanking you for the great work yall have put into it -=] 


Yes, all is appreciated!!

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Man, as usual, I go out of town for two days and all heck breaks loose.

Sorry for the trouble, haven't been in game to look at my characters and don't care to bother you if they aren't right.

It wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit if I had to start all over again. I am not here for my character or braggin rights. Besides, the time would be better spent hooking up the others.

If I could help, give a shout.

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I had lvl 32 medic, now im back to lvl 5
but i guess with the new 2x for medics, ill gain a lil faster.

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I had a 22-23 medic, I got bumped back and had to restart, after 2 maps I had lvl 20, 2 maps after that I had 23. It is rather easy to level up to 36 right now.

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Wow the solution is great! Up to like lvl 20 you only need 100 xp to lvl, then gains by 100 each, not bad! Thanks admins!

If I get lvl 36, I will be safe from any other hardware failures?

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Silver wrote:
Wow the solution is great! Up to like lvl 20 you only need 100 xp to lvl, then gains by 100 each, not bad! Thanks admins!

If I get lvl 36, I will be safe from any other hardware failures?  


I've done my reasonable best to protect it in the future.

The server has 2 drives running in mirrored raid. Either drive can fail without the server going down.

Every night at 4am the entire server is backed up to the secondary server at another physical location. This isn't a new process, but unfortunately didn't protect us this time.

On the backup server at 7am every morning the UT2004RPG and UT2004 ini's are copied to a compressed backup that we will keep for a reasonable period.

This should both keep us covered from a file corruption perspective, and also from the possibility of the entire original server's filesystem becoming damaged and replicating to the backup.

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Silver wrote:
If I get lvl 36, I will be safe from any other hardware failures?  


So I guess what I'm saying is that you're probably more safe than you are with data on your own computer.

There's all sorts of things I could do. I could every morning wake up and burn a new cd ofthe RPG data, and then ship it to an offsite backup center.

I could have multiple offsite backups. Just so you know, the currect server is using 39GB of storage on the primary server. The backup server does have a single full copy of this that's stored every night. I dont keep multiple backups of that, and due to the bulk, I dont really want to either.

I could buy a 40gb drive every week and keep a new backup of the server week by week. Then I could fedex that drive to an offsite backup center.

There's all manner of things that can be done to protect data. I believe based on time and expense that this is the best option, and fairly risk free.


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Yeah Dru - get on that!

Seriously, I think all I expect is that you have multiple copies per week of the RPG data - you don't need more copies of the file system than that which makes *you* comfortable. I don't know how many files the RPG data is (I thought it was only one) or how big the file itself is (but it should compress nicely if it is the one I think it is). So the situation you originally described (everything being replicated to a second box, and then the RPG data being copied and compressed elsewhere for archival purposes) is good enough.

Worst case you have to rebuild the box - the important thing to us is our character stats! You got a good copy of that that's a couple of days old (pref. no more than a week) and I'm good to go.

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It was not my intention to question your backup procedures when I mentioned online backups. I wanted to offer extra storage for some automated backups if needed. The offer still stands.
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thanks to both Dru and Shan for all of the hard work, we all appreciate it.

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I would like to thank numerous people both in this post, in emails, and on IM's for offering to backup the data to multiple offsite locations.

Due to the somewhat sensitive nature of having the CD key hash of every player who has ever played here, I'm sure you'll understand my reluctance to hand this information out.

We are now in a situation where a full scale crash and deletion of data from no fewer than 4 physical devices would be required to instigate a full loss of data.

Once again, the only substantial difference between now and before was that a bad file was replicated from the primary server to the secondary. Now we're keeping daily backups until we feel the need to cut some down to conserve space. They occupy about 150k compressed, so I don't think that'll be anytime soon.

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TheDruidXpawX wrote:
Due to the somewhat sensitive nature of having the CD key hash of every player who has ever played here, I'm sure you'll understand my reluctance to hand this information out. 


Encrypted backups are your answer:

Code:
gpg -r "user" -o - -e mybackup.tar.bz | \
     ssh user[at]example.com "dd of=mybackup.tar.bz.en"


The result is a file, on the remote host, called mybackup.tar.bz.en that has been encrypted using your public key. Only your private key can reveal its secrets.

See my blog entry on encryption.
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