Is it just me or is SharePoint not working?

Nope, it's not working for me either Kenneth. I wouldn't worry about it though, Sharepoint is always randomly dissappearing for a few hours or days but it always comes back. And even if we lost it, we've got a good chunk saved on our computers around the world, so it wouldn't be a total loss...

finally back

How moronic of them......

Anyway we need to begin to account for what we lost, what we have stored on each of our indivdual computers and what needs replacing / redoing again.

I hope we had the sense to have backups on our local computers????

I certainly hope i have lol, i'll have a look for all my sound recordings which i hope are not lost.

Regards Wolfe

Ye and we need to make sure this never happens again. So we should make regular sharepoint backups, once a week and after big updates. Is this possible with sharepoint?

I just can not conceive how sharepoint could have allowed this to happen, how could the backup have been corrupted aswell, i mean surely they both weren't on the same server. That goes completely against the point of redundancy and having a backup altogether.

Blehhh, just one of those things, but i bet Kenneth is having a mini stroke about now

Regards Wolfe

Pity.

The backups were likely DLT tapes, and corruption is hardly uncommon. SharePoint is just a software package, so it's not to blame. I'm disappointed that the hosting company doesn't keep at least 30, 60, and 90-day backups.

Which brings up one point of i hope everyones code is backed up on some hardcopy somewhere.

Regards Wolfe

Well i've got backups of all the new structure images for Supremacy. I've also still got ZDarby's models.

I've also got a ton of images of models, but they're from absolute months ago and most of the models probably don't exist anymore - even if sharepoint hadn't died.

By the way, will we need to reregister?

Whats the skinny on the vocal sounds? please tell me someone has backups? i managed to get a few over the varying species but not near enough of them. Also i think i have my Dominion ones somewhere.

Regards Wolfe

I think I have most of the vocals and some of the music. It will all take time to load. First I need to stop crying and recover from the lost blood. (I cut my wrists when I saw the damage.) I am also doing an IS build for some medical software at work - along with my usual work load.

SharePoint is a big black hole and the gravity is slowing time.

I just checked and i've got some of the old music that Davumaya made, so i'll upload those as well. I've got no idea about the copyright stuff though - some of it is copyrighted but which ones I have no idea.

I've still got the random events as well.

*Edit - can anyone actually log into sharepoint? It's not accepting my password.

We are all waiting on the people at SharePoint to set Mike up with a new login. Then he can hand them out to use.

seems like the cheap offer was in fact cheap..

anyway, did nobody make a backup with the explorer view and copying all folders to hdd? I mean that way everyone can make a backup from time to time and it's not even taking much effort and time..

might be a good idea to keep all this stuff on the main host as well, i can set up ken with ftp access if you all reckon its a good idea. the host keeps 30 60 and 90 day backups.

Thanks. I have all the models I upload and a few of the others. It is still better to have a backup other than me.

I have to work through all the models to apply scale and orientation for the 3D engine anyway. They are not as nicely organized on my three PCs so it will take time to find and organize them all.

I can wait for login access to SharePoint while working on all that.

and the timing would be good with what I am doing now

I love sharepoint but we really do need to question its' use after this. The large file loss problem has affected me more than once, but the explorer view has been a godsend when it comes to uploading large amounts of files. The image gallaeries are also extremely useful.

IF we were to try another host, explorer view and image galleries would definitely be a must in my list. And regualar backups would be on everyone's list.

I'm not really sure what 'ftp' is, although I know what the abbreviation stands for.

With free programs like FileZilla and FTP Commander that you use for ftp file server management, you will have an equivalent to Explorer view. The replacement for the image gallery will be a separate, second installation of a joomla image gallery section.

ftp is just a transfer protocol designed for file transfers. it's the equivalent to http (hypertext transfer protocol) that is always used when browsing the web. Hence there are equivalent "ftp browsers" to the common web browsers like IE, FF and Opera.

The new host would be star-trek-games.com of course to reduce costs.

Yes, the image gallery is a very important tool in keeping track of all the ships.