Former Texans
27-04-2005, 03:45
I'm Former Texans, of Texas. I was wondering if anyone has seen this before. It's similar to the Issues Not Updating Bug, but not exactly the same:
1. Issues addressed; later say they weren't addressed
2. Message on Regional Message Board appeared; later wasn't there
3. Pupulation sank from 498 million to 491 million in an afternoon
All of this happened I one afternoon. I went on at 12 PM, everything's fine; at 10 PM, something's wrong.
Can anyone tell me if they've seen this before and what it means?
Heiligkeit
27-04-2005, 03:50
Yes. There was a data error in NS and everything you did in the last 20hours as been erased.
Wed, 27 Apr 2005
The Great Disk Space Disaster of 2005
by Max Barry
Today our server ran out of disk space. Some servers, confronted with this situation, would collapse in a screaming heap, but not ours. Oh no! Instead it sucked it up and kept on running. Of course, it couldn't save anything, so almost every nation and region it touched got deleted or corrupted, but still, you have to admire its spirit.
Here's what happened: we realized (a) that terrible, terrible things were happening to the game, (b) this was because we'd run out of disk space, and (c) yes, we really should have caught this earlier. Fortunately, we had a complete backup from earlier in the day, so we took down the game and began restoring.
Here's what this means: if you did anything in the 20 hours before the game went down, it's been undone. Legislation passed, telegrams sent, endorsements granted or regional movement: none of it really happened.
Nations deleted in the last 20 hours will be back. (Although if they were deleted by mods, you can bet they'll be re-deleted pretty quick.) Nations created in the last 20 hours have vanished. You can re-create them, but unfortunately I suspect we'll run into some forum account wackiness, because the forum itself is not being reset. If you have problems, please see the Known Problems page.
Sorry for this, and thanks for your patience.
See also:
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=415110
Jewington
27-04-2005, 04:09
Happened to me too. That sucks, heh.
Frisbeeteria
27-04-2005, 04:10
Happened to me too. That sucks, heh.
It happened to 134,815 nations in 16,199 regions. Don't all post here, ok?
Evil Woody Thoughts
27-04-2005, 06:21
I would assume that as it was a lack of storage capacity related problem that NS will be acquiring additional server space in the near future to accomodate teh OMG 140,000 nat10nz!!!11!!?