[Alex Pepple]

Some of you who might have looked back then would have seen Jayne's report of the accidental wiping out of all the Non-Metrical threads. Well, that post is no more, and the wiped threads are back as the only way to recover the lost data was to restore the Sphere to an earlier problem-free state from the automatic database backups I'd set up.

The problem now, though, is that newer threads--just before the prune--are no longer there because the newest backup for the restore happened after the prune and thus would also not include the pruned threads; and the one just before that was eight hours earlier, and that's the state of the Sphere's threads, PMs, etc., now--i.e., we're now missing the newer posts, and PM, etc., from about the last eight hours before the pruning occurred.

Sorry to any of you who has lost important posts or PMs. If it's extremely important data, though, PM me as I might be still able to recover it for you (even though it would be a tricky and rather time-consuming process to achieve such a recovery!).

Cheers,
...Alex


Cheers,
...Alex