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We are back Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 20:15:43 No.59
We are back. Sorry for the extended downtime. I will write a more detailed timeline of what happened soon, I'm out of time for now. The long story short is that our previous hosting service BuyVM (either accidentally or intentionally) disconnected the drive on which all our live data was stored, and completely stonewalled me for 20 days and counting. Why wait so long? Since we had a good long-term relationship with BuyVM (they were usually very responsive and caused us no problems) I was hoping to resolve the issue amicably and get all our data back. However they've unfortunately left me no choice but to leave them. The Damage Here's the bad news: - I miscalculated how much image data we were missing. The latest image data backup was taken on January 30th; this means we are missing images from about the last 50 days. All previously-restored images are still with us, however. - We are now behind Cloudflare, as it was the quickest solution I had to protect the backend server. Use a VPN or TOR if this is a problem. I have reduced the protection settings to the lowest level possible, so you shouldn't get blocked by Cloudflare; let me know via admin at this domain if you are blocked and I'll look into it. I'll look into a better solution once I have more time on my hands. The upshot is that almost everything else has been fully backed up and ready to restore once I have the time for it. Restoration Status - Post data: OK - Image data: OK (mostly) - New canary: TODO - TOR hidden service: OK - Monitoring: OK - Guntstream: TODO - julay.world redirect: TODO - E-mail server migration: TODO - Automated backups (text): OK - Automated backups (image): TODO - Off-site backups: TODO - Image reupload addon: TODO
Edited last time by robi on 04/18/2025 (Fri) 21:50:07.
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 20:16:30 No.60
Note: The site might be off-and-on for the next few hours as the DNS records update. If you end up on alogs.space/oops/, just press the back button and it should take you to the original page.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:40:25 No.69
I have a BUMP archive from just a day or two before the outage for /robowaifu/ . So, we can reprise our previous approach from before to restore our files, perhaps?
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:41:05 No.70
>>69 Welcome back. Yes, that would work fine.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:42:47 No.71
>>68 Topkek. >tfw you will nevar be this dedicated to your music
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:43:53 No.72
>>70 OK, I'll try to make time to get this together. Give me till around Thu or Fri , if you would.
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:45:29 No.73
>>72 I'll do you a solid, and grab all the SHA256 hashes that are missing from just the past 50 days. Then you can only send images with matching hashes, which would significantly reduce the amount of data you'd have to send me. I'm available on IRC like before.
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:49:52 No.75
Open file (9.13 MB 300x200 BMJ tfwbroke.gif)
One more test, this time it should work...
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:52:01 No.76
On the bright side, the new server seems to have significantly higher bandwidth than BuyVM. We're still in the US, and the new hosts claim to uphold freedom of speech (they do have a quite nice AUP that only bans obvious stuff like CP and botnets/spammers). We'll see how long that lasts (hopefully for a while).
Edited last time by robi on 04/14/2025 (Mon) 21:55:01.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:02:11 No.77
>>73 Yeah totally makes sense Robi, thanks. AS YOU ALREADY KNOW, I'M A RETARD AT SYSADMIN. :DD Maybe you can help me write the Bash script to find the right files to send? <---> Also, plan to discuss migrating our past month from from Trashchan (we had a big Bunkerfest party!) I feel most of us would like to bring back all that content here on our homeboard. (Kind of like bringing undocumented swag back through Customs. :)
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:06:16 No.78
>>77 That sounds good to me. I'll write a script that can go through the whole BUMP directory and collect matching files into an output directory, should be pretty simple to do. Worst case scenario we just figure it out interactively. >I feel most of us would like to bring back all that content here on our homeboard. I don't know if we can do that automatically, but you're more than welcome to.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:25:28 No.79
>>78 I'll just make another BUMP archive of trash/robowaifu/ , then pass that whole thing off to you? Some (most?) of those new threads rightfully should be appended to currently-existing threads here on /robowaifu/ . A few would be new threads here.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:28:42 No.80
>>75 Kek. I remember this. :D
Robi Board owner 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:31:29 No.81
>>79 The main problem is importing that's not gonna be an easy job. You can give it to me as part of restoring the images but I can't guarantee that I can directly import them.
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:42:35 No.82
>>81 Mind spelling out the technical difficulties involved? Maybe I myself can write a parser for the JSONs or something?
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 22:58:10 No.83
>>81 BTW, I think you'll find my BUMP'd JSON files for alogs/robowaifu/ to be more current than what I'm seeing on our board r/n (maybe I'm wrong?) If that turns out being the case, then we'd like to patch that up as well. I'll pack up all the thread's JSON & HTML files along with, when I send you the missing files from my last archive of alogs/robowaifu/ .
Chobitsu 04/14/2025 (Mon) 23:05:00 No.84
>>83 Actually, check that. I think I may simply be mis-remembering some posts that seemed missing. I'll try to confirm this explicitly on way or other, when I can make the time to dig into that last BUMP archive on my end.
Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 05:27:54 No.85
Sank u robi
Chobitsu 04/15/2025 (Tue) 16:31:43 No.86
>>73 >I'm available on IRC like before. My apologies, but I forgot your schedule. I'm ready now as before when you are.
Robi Board owner 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:05:35 No.87
The TOR hidden service has been restored at its previous address: http://bhlnasxdkbaoxf4gtpbhavref7l2j3bwooes77hqcacxztkindztzrad.onion In the worst-of-worst case scenarios, I still hold the keys to this hidden service, so we can go all the way back to having an onion-only presence. Therefore, keep this address somewhere safe.
Edited last time by robi on 04/15/2025 (Tue) 18:06:32.
Robi Board owner 04/15/2025 (Tue) 21:02:45 No.88
Automatic daily in-server database backups are enabled. Off-site backups are still a WIP; I have a plan that should cover us reliably both for text and image data.
Edited last time by robi on 04/15/2025 (Tue) 21:03:10.
Anonymous 04/15/2025 (Tue) 22:17:36 No.89
>>88 Heil'd
Robi Board owner 04/18/2025 (Fri) 21:52:01 No.90
Automatic system monitoring is now back up on a secondary server. This means that even if the server itself goes down I should get automatic notifications about it. --- Verified that in-server database backups are taken automatically as planned. Took a new off-site text backup. A full media backup will be taken in the weekend.
Edited last time by robi on 04/18/2025 (Fri) 21:53:11.
Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 21:54:56 No.92
BTW Robi have you checked out cuckchan's source leak?
Robi Board owner 04/18/2025 (Fri) 21:56:04 No.93
>>92 Haven't had a chance to, but regardless, there's nothing much of interest there other than things to point and laugh at. It's written in a completely different programming language to Lynxchan anyway.
Chobitsu 04/19/2025 (Sat) 03:25:26 No.94
>>90 Sounds great, Robi. >>92 >>93 On this topic, apparently the exploit vector was revealed by the 1337 skiddie eminent h4xx04 . Figured I'd at least bring it to your attention just in case: (I'll need to hotlink for you) https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/77.html#816
Robi Board owner 04/19/2025 (Sat) 13:31:48 No.95
>>94 Regarding a question from GTA on trashchan: >Wait, I've done this on alogs to upload ZIP files. >Did Robi make sure that his site is safe from that exploit? Lynxchan does not generate thumbnails from PDF files, so this is not a possible attack vector.
Robi Board owner 04/19/2025 (Sat) 13:48:44 No.96
>>94 Also, I believe I have now resolved the issue with the e-mail, so please try reaching out to me that way again if IRC isn't feasible.
Chobitsu 04/21/2025 (Mon) 07:45:51 No.97
>>95 Good to hear. Thanks for the information. >>96 Great! I'll let everyone know. Cheers.
Chobitsu 04/21/2025 (Mon) 16:02:32 No.98
>>96 Hey Robi, I've tried adding Greentext anon to the Vols listing (via the usual method of needing to block JS first). I get what looks like a successful 'Volunteer added' response, but when I go back into the page and check, 'gta' isn't being listed. Did I do something wrong? Please feel free to go ahead add his account for me if you'd like to. (cf. >>>/robowaifu/37624 )
Robi Board owner 04/21/2025 (Mon) 17:04:38 No.99
>>98 I can see him in the list now, can you not?
Chobitsu 04/21/2025 (Mon) 17:21:33 No.101
>>99 >>99 OK, I'm seeing him now. Thanks, Robi!
Robi Board owner 04/21/2025 (Mon) 20:47:17 No.102
Full off-site database and media backup taken. /robowaifu/ BUMP media backup will be restored tonight.
Robi Board owner 04/21/2025 (Mon) 21:32:45 No.103
OK, the /robowaifu/ BUMP media backup has been restored, but there's a minor issue with files (because of garbage LynxChan code). Because I had to regenerate the thumbnails, the thumbnail file sizes different, and instead of just looking at the on-disk size LynxChan decides to send only the first X bytes of the thumbnail (whatever's defined in the database). Trying to see if I can regenerate these file sizes based on what's on disk.
Robi Board owner 04/21/2025 (Mon) 21:42:43 No.104
>>103 Fixed. 279 files have been restored to /robowaifu/. A full off-site media backup has been taken with the restored files.
Edited last time by robi on 04/21/2025 (Mon) 21:44:29.
Chobitsu 04/21/2025 (Mon) 22:01:45 No.105
>>104 Woohoo!! I'll let the lads know to start packing things up. Thanks for the updates, Robi.
Robi Board owner 04/22/2025 (Tue) 19:57:44 No.106
Downtime's going to be a bit delayed. For some reason our upload speeds are in the shitter outside of the US, so my pre-emptive database backup is taking longer than usual.
Robi Board owner 04/22/2025 (Tue) 20:47:33 No.107
Alright, upgrade done.
Chobitsu 04/22/2025 (Tue) 21:32:52 No.108
>>107 Thanks for the headsup! Cheers.
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