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Maroger · 12-17-2007, 03:52 PM

Kittsune@Unrest wrote:

Heh, makes you wonder how many more people would be annoyed if they brought the server down to do a rollback.Ah well. I've never been good at making my point, so I'll just stop while I'm ahead, and before I end up saying more stuff I'll probably regret later. " width="15" height="15" />

I doubt they would have to bring the whole server down. They would just have to lock the accounts of the guild while they did the restore from backup tapes.

Modern database technology is good enough now that unless THE ENTIRE database is base you restore various arrays and stuff within and leave the database up.

12-17-2007, 03:52 PM	#1171
Maroger Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,313	Kittsune@Unrest wrote: Heh, makes you wonder how many more people would be annoyed if they brought the server down to do a rollback.Ah well. I've never been good at making my point, so I'll just stop while I'm ahead, and before I end up saying more stuff I'll probably regret later. " width="15" height="15" /> I doubt they would have to bring the whole server down. They would just have to lock the accounts of the guild while they did the restore from backup tapes. Modern database technology is good enough now that unless THE ENTIRE database is base you restore various arrays and stuff within and leave the database up.