The Diesel Garage

Kat

Wicked Witch of the West
Aug 2, 2006
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Taken from TDG

I am terribly sorry for any trouble this may cause anyone, and you can believe that we are working as hard as we can to get the site back up and running.

Reality set in tonight, that we probably will not be able to restore the forum with nay of the information that was previously here. I will be honest with facts as we know them, and as we are provided more informations.

At 9:48pm CST someone was able to hack into our server from an IP that was out of Oklahoma City, OK. and removed the database that the forums ran from. Why they did it is beyond me. My first thought was for money, but so far nobody has come forward. I am willing to buy back the database if that is the case, no legal action will be taken, I just want the database back.

Our hosting company says they were unable to restore from the backup, I am not sure if the individual that took the file did this, but it's done. We will be backing up the new forum with RAID, every hour on the hour to a seperate server off site.

Please be patient in understanding we would never wish this on anybody.

Feel free to contact me with concerns.

Thank You.
 

SmokeShow

Well-known member
Nov 30, 2006
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Just heard about this on another site. What a shame. They had a good thing over there. I never made time to really get settled in over there - I simply can't go to so many sites all the time. The times I was there, I really enjoyed it though as everyone seemed real nice and a pretty tight nit group.

I wish wayne and the rest of the good folks over the best in getting things back up and going. Really sucks to have lost all that info. That site had a good amount of info. posted on it for all the makes and models. What a shame. :(


C-ya
 

Poltergeist

Ghost in the Machine
Aug 1, 2006
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does this site get backed up every so often so that this couldn't happen to us?

I have been backing it up every night onto my home computer for quite a while now. I also have a sata external hard drive that I'm setting up to backup my home computer to once a week and that drive will be locked in a media container that is rated at: 1/2-hour fire protection for CDs, DVDs, USB drives and memory sticks up to 1550°F. That will be locked inside my gun safe that has a 30 minute fire rating of its own.

If in the future I have to start doing multiple backups a day I will and then backup to the external drive more often. That will depend on traffic here but since it is picking up more and more I'll probably be doing it at least twice a day very soon.
 

Whitetail Addict

Rockin' the stock tune
May 8, 2008
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Wow...that sucks. I am a member over there, but don't post alot. Not much Dmax tech, but it is a good diesel site. I tried to log on tonight and it would not load, now I know why.

Best of luck in getting it back up and running Wayne.
 

paint94979

Beer Nazi
Sep 18, 2006
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I have been backing it up every night onto my home computer for quite a while now. I also have a sata external hard drive that I'm setting up to backup my home computer to once a week and that drive will be locked in a media container that is rated at: 1/2-hour fire protection for CDs, DVDs, USB drives and memory sticks up to 1550°F. That will be locked inside my gun safe that has a 30 minute fire rating of its own.

If in the future I have to start doing multiple backups a day I will and then backup to the external drive more often. That will depend on traffic here but since it is picking up more and more I'll probably be doing it at least twice a day very soon.

Awesome Rob, thanks a lot:D
 
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I have been backing it up every night onto my home computer for quite a while now. I also have a sata external hard drive that I'm setting up to backup my home computer to once a week and that drive will be locked in a media container that is rated at: 1/2-hour fire protection for CDs, DVDs, USB drives and memory sticks up to 1550°F. That will be locked inside my gun safe that has a 30 minute fire rating of its own.

If in the future I have to start doing multiple backups a day I will and then backup to the external drive more often. That will depend on traffic here but since it is picking up more and more I'll probably be doing it at least twice a day very soon.

Nice. Even if we lost a week, that would be nothing compared to loosing everything:)
 

fordt

Think Done Deals
Jan 3, 2007
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Thanks to everyone for the kind words!

What Kat posted pretty much says it all. Just working to get everything back in shape. I can't say enough good things about everyone that took hours out of their day to try and recover something from the last backup, but it had been corrupted.