[bookshare-discuss] Bookshare Data Rolled Back

  • From: "Peter Scialli" <Peter.s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:12 -0500

Hi All,
        There was a problem with the Bookshare master data base on Monday 
afternoon.  In fact, there was some very serious corruption to the data 
base.  Our web server guru got it fixed, but about 28 hours of Bookshare 
data was totally lost.  Yes, we checked, and there was no way out of this 
situation!
    As a result of the above, the Bookshare data, all of it has been set 
back to the way it was this past Monday at Noon Pacific Time.  So, if you've 
submitted anything between then and last evening, you'll need to resubmit 
it.  If you had something approved by the site administrator, you will 
receive a new message when he approves it again.  If you downloaded anything 
for vlaidation, it may appear on the site as being ready for download, etc.
    I think the best approach is to just take note of anything that seems 
amiss.  We will not be able to answer individual questions on exactly what 
has been undone in your specific case.  However, after a day or two, if 
something seems to be wrong and you can't fix it by redownloading or 
whatever, please let us know.
    By the way, for anyone who has subscribed or renewed in the past two 
days, the data may have been temporarily lost from the web site, but our 
trusty site administrator has independent copies of all the money stuff and 
he will restore that information.  So, if you've paid for something and now 
the site says you haven't, please don't worry about it for at least a day or 
two.  It will more than likely be corrected in due course.
    We apologize for the inconvenience.

________________________
Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
www.bookshare.org

A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
peter @benetech.org
www.benetech.org



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