Basilisk extended downtime 08/09/2017

[texparamedic]

You guys are frickin Awesome!! Thanks so much for your hard work over the last couple of days!

[Evil Cyborg 10]

Awesome work!

[Buuz Ound]

True professionals 🖒 Thank You!

[Jaws]

Thanks for the update guys. Keep up the good work.

First, thank you so much for your hard work and your team. Second, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WIPE THE DANG SERVER!

They have repeatedly said it is NOT in the interests of the dev team to wipe at this point - it was a worst case scenario.

[SeraphExodus]

Thanks Miz! Glad you guys managed to pull it off.

[futuramaman]

Well in the worst case we could have had blue frogs which basically means keeping all of those too common legendary t21s and ADKs really isn't important at all:P We probably would have read about swgemu billionaires jumping out of buildings with a sad sad story taped to themselves HAHA

[aDubble]

Damn me and my friends were really looking forward to coming back to SWG solely based on the news of a possible fresh server. But happy for everyone that is established there and won't lose their gear and stuff.

Good luck to everyone!

[Skoimich]

Alright folks, update time. We've managed a recovery of the database and we've got everything copied over to our new SSD's. We're letting Bas run for the weekend as a stress test on the database to ensure there is no corruption that didn't pop up initially. This means that for this weekend, Basilisk is going to remain on Publish 8. We're looking to give the Publish 9 merge another shot on Monday, assuming all goes well over the next 48 hours. We'll update regarding Pub9 closer to monday when we know for sure.

In the meantime, continue on Basilisk as you normally would. We'll be keeping an eye out on our side for any potential stability issues.

Keep in mind that we're still doing integrity checks on the database, if we run into any database corruption between now and then it's very likely that any progress you make this weekend will be lost when we revert to a backup. This is not guaranteed to occur, but be aware that it is definitely a possibility.

Good work, very much appreciated, I work in IT myself and I know how much backup and restores are tricky things!

[ebayne]

I am now reminded to back up my own SSD

[Chui]

I am now reminded to back up my own SSD

Better living through SWGEmu

[IxeStarwind]

Alright folks, update time. We've managed a recovery of the database and we've got everything copied over to our new SSD's. We're letting Bas run for the weekend as a stress test on the database to ensure there is no corruption that didn't pop up initially. This means that for this weekend, Basilisk is going to remain on Publish 8. We're looking to give the Publish 9 merge another shot on Monday, assuming all goes well over the next 48 hours. We'll update regarding Pub9 closer to monday when we know for sure.

In the meantime, continue on Basilisk as you normally would. We'll be keeping an eye out on our side for any potential stability issues.

Keep in mind that we're still doing integrity checks on the database, if we run into any database corruption between now and then it's very likely that any progress you make this weekend will be lost when we revert to a backup. This is not guaranteed to occur, but be aware that it is definitely a possibility.

That's great news! so , whats the new back-up disaster recovery plan for the long term? were new drives purchased? Amazon S3 50$ for 2TB monthly? some other plan in place? I would hope there is some cloud option. it would be good to know if this has been discussed so we don't have a repeat of the situation . thanks for all your hard work.

[Superser]

Very well done devs!
A question: basilisk is 1.1 TB of memory? That much? Wow!

[Reead]

Awesome news. Thanks to the entire dev team, but especially TheAnswer, for working so hard to recover the database. Excellent job. Fingers crossed that the server survives this weekend stress test.

[Jhunta]

great job guys. you are truly a cut above the rest. thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.

[Vikko]

Thank you profusely to the entire dev team for their hard work. Its a shame in a way that the rest of us who benefit from your efforts don't get a better view
of all the time and effort that goes into a project like this so that we would better appreciate the effort. Thanks for making this game possible for all of us to enjoy!

Vikko