For some time now, I had been migrating data and stuff off of our large server at the data-center. It had a couple failing drives and I was going to have the company re-do the machine. To prepare for this, several months ago, we moved most of the sites off that box. One of these was the Order of Z guild website. (a guild I run that covers several games and is many years old)
In the migration process (a few months back) I had issues with the database transfer, so I kept the pointer and old database running to the old box. Now, normally I am very careful about taking notes and notating what I have done with what. For some reason, I did not flag this in my server configuration notes that I keep.
Fast forward to present day, a couple weeks ago, I started disabling services on the box to be re-done. I double checked everything. This machine had several virtual machines running on it, and I turned each down one at a time and waited a day before proceeding. (to ensure no customer/client services were not interrupted) I did do the double check on the host server (which was also the main DB server). I saw the OZ database and just assumed that it was the old one. (part of the reason for this was that I had created the new DB on the new box, when I was attempting transfer, it had data so I assumed it was being used)
So, I flag the support team and let them know that that box is ready for re-doing. They confirm with me that it will loose all it’s data. I say “Yep! Go for it!”.
About four hours later. I go to the Order of Z site, I get this error message. Long story short, I figure we got hacked. NOPE, I had them wipe the database remember! DOH!
Anyways, I do have a few back ups, I will be looking through them to see which is the most recent. I will get the site back up and running. I will probably take the time this time to do some of the upgrades I wanted to do.
In the mean time, the teamspeak server is still up. I am still working on my new guild in Entropia Universe, www.zoku.euyou guys are all welcome to come join us. (Janu and Thor have been in-game) We have some interesting people, you guys are also welcome to join the forum if you miss shooting the shit.
If you’re an Order of Z member and have any thoughts on the matter, please comment.
