FerrariChat.com Outage Information...

I've already been to the top since it first happened.

 

Drive was sent yesterday to Disksavers.

 

BTW, Drive Savers is very professional and good to do business with.

Anyway, not looking great. Corruption spread throughout, not just one area. No physical damage to drive, but something with the references.

Tomorrow he will let me know what parts are recovered. Worst case on the images is they can be recovered, but won't have the same names, so software will never be able to link back. However, the images could be thrown into a gallery.

Should get a better status tomorrow.

 

I'm not sure how much of the old board they'll recover, but I already have some of it, it is just hard to tell how much. I haven't loaded the actual software back to see, but I know many of the files are still there.

I'm expecting we'll have some of the old board and images and some of the images from the new board, but not 100%.

I'm always an optimist and that is we didn't loose any messages on the new software. Although only 13 months time, two-thirds of all the messages ever on FerrariChat.com were within those previous 13 months. I know the old messages are still very important (Ed, JRV, and Magoo bickering ) and at worse we already have many of them recovered.

More updates soon now that I have the dialogue going with the Drive Savers tech.

 

Very good idea. I know most images are on everyone's hard drive. Considering half of images aren't even important ("Owned" or "I'd Hit That"), this would be a good effort.

Lets see after everything is recovered where the holes are.

Thanks.

 

OK, just talked to the Drive Savers tech. They're loading a new drive with everything they could recover and are sending back to the host. I guess it will now be a week or two before I can touch it and evaluate the recovery. Here is what it sounds like…

1) Sounds like most images off the new software through the crash have been recovered. That still leaves the issue whether or not the software will be able to link them all back in without problems though.

2) None of the newsletters could be recovered, so if someone could help me out if they saved any of those HTML's or even printed them off. I know Peter saved copies for awhile. What might be better is if you can check that archive site to see if any of the newsletters are there.

3) Looks like some of the Parts & Service articles were recovered.

4) None of the old software was recovered. However, between what I've already recovered plus a 700 Mb. tar file backup I did of the old software at some point, then it at least sounds like much of the old stuff is recovered.

There won't be any more updates until they get the drive and load it. I'll update you when I hear something.

 

Why isn't there anything after Jan. 2004? That's what I really need for the newsletters.

 

Drive Savers is shipping the new drive to the host today. Will be there Monday, who knows how long it takes the host to give me access and inspect. They haven't been very nice to me lately. I guess they are predicting what is coming.

My tail is hurting really bad right now, not sure if it is my participation in the Spongebob thread or all the money I have paid for bad backups and now to Drive Savers.

I just want it all over with.