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SERVER DRIVE CRASH / SITE DOWNTIME

A foundational original-board announcement explains a July 2004 server drive failure, the move to ServINT VPS hosting, backup restore boundaries, and Jamil's complete beat backup.

Catalog ID
topic-407
Creator / handle
zooky / user 1 / Administrator
Date
2004 / captured 2004
Evidence class
14 posts from July 13, 2004
Survival status
Readable original-board thread

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Related evidence

  • Official Announcements / forum 8
  • Topic ID 407; captured by Wayback on 2004-08-16
  • zooky reported a total drive failure and said the host reported all hard drives were wiped
  • TightBeatz moved to ServINT VPS hosting after the outage
  • Forum files were restored from May 30 backups, while a July 8 database backup preserved most forum data through that point
  • Jamil had a complete backup of the beats; zooky said that without Jamil the music would have been lost
  • Beat-uploading accounts created after May 30, forum posts after July 8, one or two battles, and three unknown beats were described as permanently lost
  • The beat-submit system, Shoutcast, and TightBeatz Radio were restored after the crash