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[fanthrax]

Our server suffered a catastrophic hard-disk crash on Sunday afternoon. Thanks to the abysmal response times of our hosting provider's support team, it took us three days to assess the damage, correspond with the data center and request a new HDD be installed. We just finished configuring the new system, which took us a bit longer than usual, due to problems with a new version of our OS and difficulties getting the newest PHP version to work with all the components we require.

Unfortunately, the old hard disk was not salvageable and we were told it did not even spin up when plugged in. This means we had to roll back to a two-week-old backup, losing most of the changes introduced last week (they will come back, once I have stopped sobbing uncontrollably and start the work again). We also lost all torrents uploaded after the 14th and are missing the .torrent files for all torrents uploaded between the 11th and the 14th (there will be a special upload option for those torrents in the next days). The same goes for the NFOs, we lost all uploaded NFOs and I (nem) would like to personally apologize to all the users who went through all the trouble uploading them! It was my fault that we did not have access to the latest backups and you can be certain it will not happen again. The browse and details pages reverted to their old versions, and the watchlist is currently not usable because it expects changes in the database schema that were not yet implemented in the SQL backup we had.

Due to the files and database being a patchwork of various backups there will be quite a few bugs, please help us with the rebuild and report them here in this thread.

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All cleanup scripts have been halted, so don't worry about peers that are not removed from your profile and other stuff like that.