They say that with great power comes great responsibility. But the fact that great power also comes bundled with a greater probability of committing equally ‘great’ errors was in very fine print. To err is human and this time I am on the wrong side, a situation where I never wanted to be and never thought I would be.

Yesterday, while working on an edit request by Satyen Poojary on the Official Mumbai Offline G2G thread, I was also pruning of some unnecessary posts and xBhp updation going on alongside. In the process, I accidently deleted a big chunk of posts from the Mumbai Offline G2G thread. The mistake was identified almost within seconds, but the data had been deleted from the server. We took every single step that we could’ve taken to ensure that we do not lose any data and fortunately we were able to restore almost all of the posts (barring the posts in the last 2-3 hours before which the backup was taken on the servers). This is partly the reason why xBhp was down for a duration much longer than we had anticipated.

I know any words of apologies from my side are not enough to compensate what has been lost. I know how it feels to lose memories of good times that you’ve believed will always be there for you. I can empathize with the feeling as I too was a part of the scene when xBhp crashed in ’08, almost exactly 2 years ago. I feel I deserve to submit an apology to all of you for what has been done and to assure my member brothers that this will never happen again. Along with this apology, I would request all xBhpians to have faith in this edifice that has been as much the result of their efforts and contribution as it has been for us working behind the scenes. Hoping to be pardoned for an inadvertent error and looking forward to a vibrant xBhp once again.

SunilG
(Been There, done that first and last time time only)

Gupta Ji, the gentleman that he, was almost in tears when he accidentaly deleted this thread. I jokingly told him that all Mumbaikars, especially Satyen ji will come and beat hum up with chains!

On a serious note, almost nothing has been lost thanks to the daily backup that is automatically taken in the RAID setup we had. The hundred posts that are issing primarily from the Mumbai offline thread were not restired by the automated system because they were marked as corrupt (no seriously!).

Also only the poste between approx 12.30 PM and 4.40 PM of yesterday are not there.

All Iz Well!

Gupta Ji, the gentleman that he, was almost in tears when he accidentaly deleted this thread.

You bet, we had started raising funds for flame thrower, some automatic chain saws et all! but then as long as Inder is now below 5000 posts its ok, infact we are happy!

:P