Good morning everyone. I unfortunately have to break some bad news to everyone, the worst news the server has ever had. Last night a disgruntled ex-employee of Fragnet (Our current and soon to be former hosting provider) wiped out all USA databases. This includes ours. Don’t panic, VeteranCraft didn’t die, and will be back up shortly, but there is some data loss and it will effect a lot of people.Fortunately, frelling did a manual backup of the database on June 25th, which many servers don’t even do. So the only time effected will be pretty much the last 2 and a half weeks.
What’s Safe?
- World files (Everything you built is still there)
- Inventories
- Chest contents
What’s Lost?
- McMMO skills earned from June 25th to now
- iConomy transactions from June 25th to now
- All Logblock files
What We’re Doing
- All donor salaries that were paid since the 25th will be re-paid
- Frelling will do his best to restore player-to-player iconomy transactions from the server logs
PLEASE DON’T HASSLE STAFF ABOUT ICONOMY BALANCES. WE’RE AWARE AND IF YOU’D HAVE READ THE ABOVE YOU’D HAVE YOUR ANSWER!
Now you can end your mini panic attack, and breath a sigh of relief that it wasn’t worse than it could be. Really the worst of it is we’re loosing 2 weeks of McMMO stats. It sucks but it could suck worse. Give frelling a round of applause, and hope to see you at the event today!
Post Author: meatbawllz
Meatbawllz founded VeteranCraft in June of 2011 to create a player experience for mature players, with a great balance of features. VeteranCraft is a place with many skilled players that help pitch in to make things awesome.
Nicely done frell.
Please understand that recreating money transactions will take some time. There is a lot to process and it will probably take a good day or so. Maybe less, but I’m seriously lacking some sleep because of this database issue.
Here is what is going to be created to the best of our abilities: 1) all /money commands that players issued; 2) all vote rewards.
So about the money… You said that it will be determined by the /money commands and vote rewards. Will shillings earned by killing mobs not be included?
thats right spent, or with localshops, as far as i understand it
My guess would be tracing all those, even if they are logged, would be a nightmare. Judging from that it will take so much time, I’d guess there’s no possibilities for an automatic script to handle it. Now trades are done perhaps a hundred times or less each day? Compare that to thousands of mobkills that give shillings. Didn’t gunn earn thousands each day using a blaze grinder?
Another problem would be shops. My shop has bought a lot of lapis recently, for which people got money. I assume that if possible those will be handled too but as layman I do not know what all is logged and how hard it is to deal with. The same applies to residence purchases, they also have to hunt those down, including resdeletes+resremakes.
I’m sure that staff will do their best to repair the damage as much as they can within reasonable time, so just have faith and if some can’t be restored, so be it.
oh well hmmm. I think that I just lost a lot of money
how do you vote??? and wat is the reward
Use the dropdown at the top of the site that says ‘vote’. Each vote is 50 shillings, and you get to vote on all 6 server lists each day.
Ho. Ly. Crap.
When you had nothing to begin with you have nothing to lose.
I think Meat should write suspense novels. I’m fairly certain I suffered permanent heart damage reading the first half. It’s good to see we’re on our way to recovery, and I’m glad we’ve such a fantastic tech team looking out for us. I’ve seen a few other FragNet hosted servers that are in a dismal state of affairs right now.
Yeah, every Fragnet database in the USA has been wiped out, so there’s a lot of pissed customers right now. Especially the ones who didn’t do manual backups at all.
… All 8 US locations?
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There will be blood.
This is crazy! Like Tony, I freaked out for a bit, but once I got to the bottom of the blog I realized it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. Thanks, Frelling!
i have to say that frelling, good move. meat, i agree with tony, write suspense novels.
good job both of you, though mostly for frelling
is there anything the rest of us can do to help?
oh bother! I think in these hard times, we should all remember how attractive Katy Perry is and how wonderful it is that I finally got my forum account right!
Long live the Queen Michelle Obama <3
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also, because of the problems with monye, should we vote on any of the sites untill the transactions are repeated?
I dont care… Im so broke it doesnt even matter if I lost money
Omg, first i had almost 5000 shill, now i have 60
you lost 5k and I lost 10k
I think I lost around 1k…. I could get that back but its a pain
If you lost 1k and that’s the worst for you, you’re lucky. Some people lost 40k. You can earn 1k in 25 minutes of mining gold and voting.
What you guys seem to not have read is: Frelling will do his best to restore player-to-player iconomy transactions from the server logs
Meaning you probably won’t have lost any money or very little. The biggest inconvenience will be the mcmmo stats from 2 weeks. It could be worse.
I earned 10k from mob grinding so if what I am told is correct, that money is gone.
Unfortunately, yep.
I could care less about losing my 20k but I lost over 200 skill levels
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I can see that the server is now in maintenance mode. Looks like things are starting to get better
we lost a few shillings , but did not lose our work [ housing and projects ] or our stock of horded supplies . [totally] tyvm to all who are working on this . personally i think Veterancraft is run exceedingly well , and this will be proved out on how much better off we are compared to those who lost everything . Kudos to you all and again tyvm for your work
Thank God for Frelling or else we would be -insert a bad word here-. Frelling for Pres.
As for Fragnet. I’m not to thrilled with them right now :-/
Haha crap, the only thing I logged in to do over the last 3 weeks was grind mcmmo
Think I lost 80 or so Axe levels and around 50 Archery levels – sh*t happens!
I’m thinking about doing a week of double mcmmo skills to help make up for the losses. Standby for details.