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Topic : "SIJUN UPDATE: what happened and what we lost" |
Sumaleth
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 Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:52 pm |
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The server hosting the Sijun Digital Art Forums (and the gfxartist.com site) was hacked almost two weeks ago. The person somehow gained access to the MySQL database system and screwed up Sijun's forum database and gfxartist's advertising database.
Unfortunately, the most recent Sijun backup didn't work, so we've had to use an earlier backup from July. On one hand, it means we've lost a lot of threads and posts in Speedpainting, but on the other hand, for a while there we did think we were going to have to use a backup made when Sijun switched from UBB to phpBB2, back in about 2002.
We got off relatively lightly.
So, a few steps back but nothing we can't walk again. If you find anything you posted in Speedpainting missing, please post it again. Missing threads can be recreated, and we should be able to get Sijun back to where it was without too much trouble.
Better than ever.
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Gort
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:14 pm |
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Thanks for the update, and thanks for seeing that we're back up.
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Kwiix
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:33 pm |
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I just want to say that I'm glad the Sijun forums are back. I'm sure most people didn't know how much they'd miss this place until it went away.
Thanks for getting things worked out. |
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Naeem
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:52 pm |
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Yes,
Coming home one day and seeing what happened was abit of a scare. Glad to have sijun back 
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Matthew
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:09 am |
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hmm I thought I saw some signs of hacking...u remember?
things could be worse, glad the july version worked.
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Ragnarok
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:59 am |
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Good thing you guys could solve it. It's nice to have Sijun back 
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Max
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:28 am |
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| Yeah. A big thank you to the guys who brought it back!! |
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Nag
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:31 am |
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| Thanks for bringing it back guys, I was starting to suffer from some serious redrawal symptoms. |
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eyewoo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:04 am |
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| Many, many thanks for all the work that must have gone into getting Sijun up and running. Kudos... |
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skullmonkeys
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:18 am |
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Hey at least all the 'Archives' are intact. That was the first thing I was worried about when I heard about possible data loss.
Other threads can be re created tho.  |
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GordMacDonald
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:35 am |
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so good to have sijun back - I was really worried that it was gone for good - scarey!
thanks to all at Sijun for getting it back up and running!
Gord
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