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[Lumpbucket]

This morning some bastard hacked the host of videobrewery.com. It is not yet known who or why. The html and images have been reinstated, but the MySQL database has been lost. All projects, and project diaries, features, news items, the lot are gone, and they cannot be restored.

It is hosted on a box owned by my friend. The advantage being PHP & MySQL hosting for free. The downside that there is no backup of my MySQL database. It is now backed up hourly to a different machine, but its a bit late now...

I am really annoyed right now as the site was just starting to become popular. I just don't know what to do with it. I'm really sad not because of losing my work, but because people had really interesting project diaries hosted there, especially Soeren's KTAA diary.

If I do restore the site, as I said, the database will be backed up hourly, and it will probably be done from scratch, but right now i'm not sure if I have the time since I have several other sites that need my attention. Those other sites are for money, Videobrewery was just for fun.

:-(

[DEBRO]

[Paul Slocum]

I really wish you'd put it back up. I think it's such a good idea. I'll put all my projects back in. The RPG needed an update anyway.

-paul

[Lumpbucket]

Thanks Paul! Your support is very much appreciated. I'll work on rebuilding the databases sometime this weekend. It won't be fun since i'll have to reverse engineer the tables from the php code; muggins here didn't keep a record of them... *sigh*

Still... some lessons learned I feel. I'm just so angry I lost it because of some pathetic "script kiddy" having a laugh...

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Idiots are everywhere!

If you hurry you might be able to reconstruct large parts by using the Google cache.

And then there still is http://web.archive.org :

http://web.archive.o...re.php?featid=1

Here is something from KTAA:
http://66.102.11.104...&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
http://66.102.11.104...&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

Splatform (not the last update):
http://66.102.9.104/...&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

Cave1K (not the last update too):
http://66.102.9.104/...&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

[Nateo]

Wow, I hope that you are able to eventually get all of that back up! Thats an awesome concept for a site, a site entirely devoted to homebrewing and hombrew games. I just found out about this site with your post, so I hope things get back together soon!

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Any success?

[Lumpbucket]

Thanks for the links Thomas, your support is very much appreciated. Unfortunately right now I don't have time to fix videobrewery, since I have some websites to create that am I doing for paying clients. Unfortunately this means my hobby sites, including Videobrewery, have to take a lower priority :-(

I hope to get onto it soon, though.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Lumpbucket said:

Unfortunately this means my hobby sites, including Videobrewery, have to take a lower priority :-(

I hope to get onto it soon, though.

You (or someone else) should at least try to backup the Google caches before they are overwritten with the current (empty) content.

[EricBall]

Sigh, I had just posted an update to my SpaceWar 7800 diary, gotten a comment even, and was thinking that I should make a copy for myself "just in case".

And although I could make nasty comments about lack of backups, this incident has motivated me to make a backup of my documents.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

EricBall said:

Sigh, I had just posted an update to my SpaceWar 7800 diary, gotten a comment even, and was thinking that I should make a copy for myself "just in case".

Maybe you (we!) have luck and it will show up in Google's cache.

[Mord]

Thomas Jentzsch said:

EricBall said:

Sigh, I had just posted an update to my SpaceWar 7800 diary, gotten a comment even, and was thinking that I should make a copy for myself "just in case".

Maybe you (we!) have luck and it will show up in Google's cache.

Hopefully. Looking at archive.org, looks like the last update it did on the site was in mid 2003, although I only checked for 'www.videobrewery.com' itself.


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Mord

[Mitch]

Here's a link to the Google cache for 7800 Space War. Get it while you can.

Mitch

[EricBall]

Mitch said:

Here's a link to the Google cache for 7800 Space War. Get it while you can.

Yeah, I snagged that earlier once I learned that the problems weren't temporary. It doesn't have my most recent updates, although those I think I can recreate.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

EricBall said:

It doesn't have my most recent updates...

Maybe it is just too early for that and we just have to wait for the next Google scan, transfering the last valid content into the cache. Not sure though.

[Simon]

Hi,

you can restore your site using this link http://web.archive.o...ctions/web.html - search for http://www.videobrewery.com (or any other site) there and choose a date to be taken back to.

I guess that this should help (and I wouldn't have to edit my texts myself again :-)).

Best regards,
Simon

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Did anybody with a faster Internet connection than mine take backups from the Videobrewery Google cache?