Thanks very much - the machine to restore onto isn’t an issue (we already had a new machine that we were delaying migrating to so as not to cause outages during GSoC application time), just the data loss and reconfiguration at this point.
/K > On 29 Mar 2017, at 11:54, Thomas Camaran <[email protected]> wrote: > > if can help i can give a debian vps (on proxmox) for free. > > Can give 50 GB - 4 GB of RAM, 4 vCPU, and 20 Mbit/s > > 2017-03-29 12:49 GMT+02:00 Kevin Smith <[email protected]>: > Hi folks, > > As many of you will have noticed, we had a ‘minor issue’ with the server at > the weekend. To cut a moderately long story short, there was a failure at the > hosting provider, destroying the server that hosts the xmpp.org XMPP service, > website, wiki, xmpp.net service, etc. etc. Because these things always work > better together, we then discovered that that machine wasn’t being backed up. > The upshot of this is that we’ve potentially permanently lost most of the > data on the server. We’re working to bring services back online as well as we > can and recover what data we can, but there will be data loss even in the > best possible case. > > Thanks to everyone who’s been helping recover from this, but especially Edwin > who’s put in obscene amounts of time and is continuing to do so. > > If it happens that you have any of the wiki data locally for some reason > (e.g. browser tabs still open), please recover it and send it our way. > > /K > > > > -- > Thomas Camaran > Information in this email including any attachments may be privileged, > confidential and is intended exclusively for the addressee. The views > expressed may not be official policy, but the personal views of the > originator. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender by > return email and delete it from your system. You should not reproduce, > distribute, store, retransmit, use or disclose its contents to anyone.
