Monday, March 19, 2012

Server is Back!!

After a few dozen hurdles and a lot of frustrating fixing we have managed to resurrect the server, for the curious mind here is a detailed story of what actually happened.

It started crashing ever since we updated (unstable Bukkit builds)
Windows 7 didn’t want to start and asked for a restore so we did and it restored back to a year ago. (Old HDD with old not working windows)

We lost all our server files they were nowhere to be found, it seemed like windows restore deleted the files (PC was booting from the HDD instead of the SSD)
Tried to undo the restore process, with no luck
Went to the other option to run a data recovery and while we were about to start the data recovery we found all the files on the drive as they were untouched

Fixed up a few things here and there, the server was back on to crash
This time around it wouldn’t even detect the drives
Replaced the wires and brought the server up only to crash again
Upon checking the drive cables again the server PC won’t even give display. (HDMI cable was loose)
Ditched the server PC to run the server from the other PC, worked fine for an hour and then crashed

Finally found what was really wrong, it was the SSD drive that kept messing up
Discarded the SSD, the server runs from the old HDD with the old restored windows 7 on the server PC
Hopefully there won't be any more complications any time soon.

Thanks for being patient it might not have been easy for most of us to pass our precious time without our playground but I hope you all survived one day without it, same goes for RobinR who thankfully continue to exist after trying to repair the server wasting his whole day.

The Server Team

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