On the evening of 2nd January, dotCanada's "King" server experienced a catastrophic failure in which its "FAT directories became unstable," taking the server down and rendering the files on its hard drive unrecoverable -- apparently. It took the SSSD Project website, SledDogBlog, and Legacy Sleddogs Online newsletter with it. All have now been restored from a month-old backup, but anything entered for the last four weeks has been lost. I've done a lot of revision work on the Project website in that time...
Up to this point I haven't been saving copies of MovableType entries to SledDogBlog and Legacy Sleddogs Online. Live and learn! Things are still chaotic, and this entry itself is in the nature of a test, as up to this point, though user access has been restored, I've been unable to edit and save anything or to upload new files, as the webhost was "experiencing some permissions problems on the recovered files." If I can save and publish this entry, it represents a giant step back to functionality.
Internet connectivity and communication are great things, but boy, have we come to count on them -- and when things go west, the result is chaos, destabilisation, and emotional upset! Well -- would YOU like to repeat all the work you've done for the past four weeks -- assuming you COULD??? I'm not going to try to reconstruct the recent posts on this newsletter; I'll need to put the effort into restoring the website revisions! But if anyone's worried about the feature article "The Message of BAYOU OF FOXSTAND," fear not. The text is safe; I'll just have to reformat all of it for the newsletter -- all over again.
Posted by jjeffrey at January 4, 2006 10:55 PM