[Coco] forums restore

[Roger Taylor]

Hello all,

coco3.com has been restored to the state it was in on 7/5/2009.  Any 
messages posted between then and earlier today are gone (as expected).

I'm going to try to bring back as many messages as possible for the 
members who were affected by the recent database problem, by taking 
an older backup and extracting just those posts from the SQL 
commands, and either merge them in myself or get help from someone so 
the entries or indexes don't clash.

The resulting database will be backed up daily or every few days.  In 
fact, the entire site will also be backed up into one file by the 
host's cPanel every few days or so.

This way, while I continue to block out known bad IPs, servers and 
domains, and keep a better watch on new signups, any mishap in the 
future can be undone within a few minutes of me being notified or me 
noticing it.  I don't plan on things like this happening more 
frequently than they have in the past, which has been infrequent 
compared to many other sites under bot-attack, but I'll be watching, 
as will others who mod the forums, for anything unusual, and if it's 
a person doing it, I'll trace them to the chair they're sitting in, 
and that's a promise.

For everybody else, enjoy your site and keep up the good chats, here 
and there, and everywhere.
Thanks
-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com