Yes. The server crashed.
it was restored from a backup copy
Don't you have the server hosted at a big name cloud service?
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Yes. The server crashed.
it was restored from a backup copy
Yup.Don't you have the server hosted at a big name cloud service?
... though not actually as unlikely as I'd have assumed.it's unlikely the underlying hardware/VM disappeared
(Amazon EBS Features - Amazon Web Services)[Most] Amazon EBS volumes are designed to provided 99.8%-99.9% durability with an AFR of between 0.1% - 0.2%,
Site Support: Server restore Dec 29Could we possibly have some more details?
Shame there wasn't a backup taken right before the upgrade. Or maybe there was, and it wasn't restorable, it happens.Due to a failed upgrade, a backup from the 28th was used to restore the server. As a consequence, all posts from the last 15 hours have gone.