May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
I was worried, but thanks to the MYSQL database, the developers were thoughtful enough to include some recovery repair tools.
It took all night for the repair tool to do its stuff, but it worked!
I can not rule out that some old messages on the board maybe corrupt, but so far everything seems to be intact.
Even if we did lose the database and it became completely corrupt, we perform a full database backup every Sunday morning that gets copied onto a network backup drive.
This was probably only the second time we needed to take the database down in about 2 years. But it highlights the importance of making backups!
Dear Lord, lest I continue in my complacent ways, help me to remember that someone died for me today. And if there be war, help me to remember to ask and to answer "am I worth dying for?" - Eleanor Roosevelt
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)