Titan Network

Community => City of Heroes => Topic started by: gothess on March 30, 2009, 12:09:40 AM

Title: Steiner...
Post by: gothess on March 30, 2009, 12:09:40 AM
Take a walk, calm down. It's not the end of the world. You don't get paid to do this and you just inherited all this which wasn't in a perfect, neat little package. :)

We all learn from our mistakes... and others... ;)

It's not worth stressing yourself over all of this. I like the Titan Network and all it does for me. Feeding my badge addiction and letting me show it off (what little I do have :P).

I'm not extremely tech savvy, but if you need any help with simple things, I don't know what that would be, then I can offer my time if need be. I think I donated once to the TN, does that go to you now?

Again, take a breather. Things happen. Take care! :D
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Culach on March 30, 2009, 02:00:09 AM
Seconded...

You have a big job that you are doing for free (with donations from those who can).  We appreciate what you folks are doing but don't want you to burn yourselves out. 

If you do that we lose Titan altogether and that would be bad  :-[

Take care of yourself then worry about the little things...
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: TonyV on March 30, 2009, 02:19:58 AM
I screwed up similarly (http://paragonforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=588#3358) with the Paragon Wiki once; lost the whole damn thing, backup and all.  The last good backup I had was at least a day or two old, but even worse, the restoration process took like three or four days.  I just about pulled my hair out over that incident.

It's a rite of passage, something that everyone has to go through at some point or another.  Such is the price of us not being paid to do this full time.  (Although make no mistake, it happens in the biggest and most professional of datacenters as well; I know this from personal experience.  I'm just saying that if this were my full-time job, at least 15 minutes of every day would be spent pulling and validating backups...)

The bright spot in all of this is that sysadmin to sysadmin, I know that this most likely will never happen again with the Titan Network.  Once you've been burned by this, it really tends to motivate you to take measures to ensure that it never happens again.  ;)  Another bright spot is that in times like these, you really find out how valuable your resource is to the community.  ;D
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Steiner on March 30, 2009, 02:27:07 AM
Thanks guys/gals, I needed that.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: OzCavalier on March 30, 2009, 02:38:28 AM
Don't worry about it Steiner. Personally, I'd rather go through having to re-enter all of my characters manually than to never have this resource available again... and I think the entire Titan using Co* Community would agree with me.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Tazhyngarth on March 30, 2009, 02:06:45 PM
Just look at it this way....Spring Cleaning of sorts....anything that was corrupt and we didn't catch (Characters with no Pilot), is now gone :P.  Not that it really mattered...space not being an issue with how the Data is stored, but you know how we get discussing all the "excess" stuff....lol!
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Catwhoorg on March 30, 2009, 02:08:47 PM
No-one will be as mad at you as you are at yourself.

Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: ineffablebob on March 30, 2009, 08:30:48 PM
Indeed. I know what it's like to make a boneheaded move that upsets the user community. (Anyone remember HeroStats 4.2.0.0? It wasn't long for this world.) Mistakes happen, ya fix 'em, ya move on. We all appreciate your work, so stay calm, learn from the mistake, and keep on pluggin'.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Nod on March 30, 2009, 11:52:06 PM
Everyone makes mistakes, it's how we grow.

Of course, if you do it again, we will find you and reenact the scene from Braveheart with you as the star. You know what scene I'm talking about...
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Steiner on March 31, 2009, 12:19:26 AM
the mourning star? it's the only scene I saw in the entire movie... :D
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: eabrace on March 31, 2009, 01:12:29 AM
"But, of course, we're not on my island."  :)
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Nod on March 31, 2009, 05:46:20 AM
More's the pity...
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Shaz on April 01, 2009, 10:53:54 AM
I logged in today for the first time in a few days. I couldn't remember if I'd updated one of my characters.

My jaw dropped when I only saw 4 characters listed. With single digit badge numbers. I spazzed. I freaked. I cursed. I hit the forums, to make my first ever post asking about what in blazes happened, noticed the Announcement post, and ... oh. Well. Okay then!

I'm a klutz. I completely understand!  :P
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Ceejer on April 01, 2009, 11:31:13 AM
Everyone makes mistakes. Hang in there. Live n' learn. Then make backups.  ;)

Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Shorts on April 01, 2009, 12:07:57 PM
There are two kinds of people in this world.
Those who don't backup and those who nowadays backup.

I'm still in the first category.  ;D

Congrats on your rite of passage Steiner. You'll do fine.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Steiner on April 01, 2009, 01:42:41 PM
I honestly didn't expect everyone to be this understanding of that foul-up.

Rest assured, I have 3 different procedures setup to save the live data from any form of screw up now.

Thanks again for just being a great community and not chasing me out of the Titan Network in angry mob fashion.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: SuckerPunch on April 01, 2009, 03:07:53 PM
Thanks again for just being a great community and not chasing me out of the Titan Network in angry mob fashion.

We could still make this happen.
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Tazhyngarth on April 01, 2009, 06:27:25 PM
We could still make this happen.

Took the words right out of my mouth >: ).
Title: Re: Steiner...
Post by: Bliz on April 04, 2009, 11:18:11 PM
*goes huntin' for torches* :P