M6 forums out of disk space

[Doug Beachy]

OK, good news: M6 is back up!  

Let's hope it stays up this time.  

[Katahu]

Just for the record, don't confuse "authoritative" with "authoritarian". I outlined the difference clearly in my last
post.

Oh,  and I'm sorry if I offended one of you on my last post. If you read closely, you can see that I said "from what I
understand". Thus indicating that I'm not much of a regular in that forum so please forgive me for my ignorance as I
don't know the M6 forum very well.

[DanSteph]

Orbiter Fan a écrit:
What do do you mean by "rework"? I don't see anything whatsoever different from prior to the downtime.

Sorry might be a bad translation from french "re-marche". It work again if you preffer.

Dan

[EndeavourCmdr]

Up for me too. See you there =)

[Quick_Nick]

Woo!!! I gotta see for myself. And get rid of those (insert insult here) temp forums.

[RichWall]

Thank you very much for having us all on board Dan.

I really do respect the way you have managed your forum.

It is a major accomplishment to be proud of.

Rich

[Radu094]

What caused the lack of disk space on M6 was not the actual database (which is only ~ 100+ MB), but the database
transaction log which was not cleared since a few years (and this was several GB large).  
I was unable to clean the log as my access permisions prevent me from from doing so , so we had to have someone
at M6 backup the DB and push up for more disk space.
Forum is back online now and we should not have any log problems for another couple of years

[Marvin]

Finally.

[Simonpro]

Thank you for your work Radu, I appreciate it, and thank you for putting up with all the extra people Dan. I hope
we've all behaved ourselves

[DanSteph]

Radu094 a écrit:
What caused the lack of disk space on M6 was not the actual database (which is only ~ 100+ MB), but the database

Great, many thanks to keep us informed.
And happy new year by the way

Dan