Crossfire Returns!

After a dose of Swine Flu Crossfire has returned - but with a vintage database alas. Last week Crossfire's hard drive crashed and burned taking the site down and leaving us with only a backup as of March 2009 to relaunch the site from. Though we will attempt to recover a more recent version the likelihood is the past 6 months of Crossfire’s life did not happen! Another side-effect of this crash is the loss of all users’ profile images.

We can only apologise for how long it’s taken us to get the problem fixed, we've certainly learned a lesson or two as a result of the past week’s events and will come back stronger from it! To get a more hands on setup we've moved Crossfire onto Heaven Media's servers where we can better control situations like this.

In the coming month we'll be confirming the worst kept secret ever which is CC7 and the usual, who what where and when of the next Crossfire LAN. Lastly I'd like to thank Fusen, Corin and Steve for their many hours spent on reincarnating Crossfire, without whom the site would still be dead!

If you do notice any additional bugs now the site is back online, please report them in this forum post.

Regards

TosspoT

sol's edit: If your account is banned and it shouldn't be, message an admin either here or in #crossfire, same goes for those of you who can't get your accounts working due to incorrect e-mail addresses or otherwise. If you're wondering whether we can restore your old profile, the answer is no, so please stop asking about this. We cannot restore lost data.
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WWOOOT

=))
only have half of my hits left :(
YUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
lolwut my old profile site :'D
welcome back crossfire <3
OMG HELL YES!
WB everyone! And welcome to march 2009 !
damn that time machine really DOES work :O
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Nice to see the site back up :)
hey wtf why my all things from profile are deleted and some of my friends got removed? its gonna be fixed?
MARCH 2009 !!!
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QuoteLast week Crossfire's hard drive crashed and burned taking the site down and leaving us with only a backup as of March 2009 to relaunch the site from
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Welcome back!
was about time and wtf is this http://crossfire.nu/?x=user&mode=view&id=4338 ? :DDdd
great,i cant remember my buddys now :D
CC7 awesome
tomattelan > *
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cant fuking edit my profile:>
MY PROFILE
seriously? I download my databases nightly. FFS atleast do it once a week.

No database since March=epic fail
have you got any idea how big the crossfire database is?
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Have you got any idea about how professional webhosting is done?
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Good, just wanted to know, you know.
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All the more reason to do it. The larger the DB the more data that can be lost. Trust me theres sites much larger than crossfire that keep very up to date backups. Any site worth their weight does it more often than 6 months. Thats just asking for trouble.

It's just poor practice & slap in your users face. The amount of information they take their time to post here on a daily basis is rather large & should be taken care of. I've written columns & news posts here that have taken me hours to construct & sometimes days to gather information.

I'm not attacking anyone as I know the staff here go to great lengths to provide this service but this is a huge oversight. I know this is Tosspot's baby & I know how he feels about it & I gotta imagine he is livid at the loss of data. Just one of those things that you dont think about till it bites you in the ass.
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great 400 hits XDDD
xDD idd i am now :D
wanna be my dady? :D
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i am unbanned because of this rollback, and came back with 50 warningpoints.

awesome.
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xDDD photo isnt even registerd xd
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hahah now thats newschool : D
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crossfire invented a time machine and took us all back to march
not my fault!
i lost my administrator shizzle, pls add me back :(
no way josé
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omg whats the point in restoring the site :[

whats the point in anything
Lost all my quotations, teams, ex-teams and hits, great
How do you check the cache for arbitrary URLs?
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search in google: cache:userprofilelink

like this
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site:crossfire.nu inurl:7806 (profile id, whatever it is)

and then hit the cached button

WorksForMe!
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oh, nice :)
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How if I can get my clan Deathless and Splendid back? Wrote loads in them too
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google, site:crossfire.nu inurl:clan "deathless"

could work?
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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa crossfire is back I am haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :D:D:D
thank god its back :D
you failed!
Can't update profile.
thank god, i almost started looking at tek9.
I EVEN POSTED

i feel like i cheated on crossfire :(
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omgomg all delited? :<
If only ID & endrant could go back 6 months knowing what they know today :'(

image: bgus1i
cool backups......................
Fucking brainiacs, what retarded website manager only makes backups once in 6 months.
I'm glad the latest backup is atleast from 2009 ... ¬_¬
cba to update my profile any more, fu
cc7? will there be ET?
didnt netcoders say same words and still they got owned?
I smirk every time I see that image. :>
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and why didn't you make a back-up every day or week.

But cc7 sounds nice
Finally ;)
not possible to add new clan's.
nice 124 views..at my profil.. :P
die 20 views mehr oder weniger sind auch schon egal oder?
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ich hatte über 300 :D
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Efficient way to remove all the wolfenstein flame! :D

Good job bringing her back up.. I've missed her <3
6 month backup $$$$$$$$$$$$ :)))


also seychelles flag needs readding!
but you look cool and original with no flag next to your name
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what he ^ said, i want no flag aswell :(
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database-23-06.tar.gz

guess where it was.
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DILEMMA!
OH DAMN!!! MARCH?!?! STOP KIDDING ME I GOT A PN FROM MARCH -.-
that sucks sooooooooo hard,

welcome back CF, all the same !
Just a small update : If you need passes and/or usernames changed, I can do this for you via an IRC PM, however the DB is being a bit temperamental right now and we cant change anything. I am waiting for a coder to come online and once that happens we should be able to fix whatever the issue is.

The same goes for password retrieval which isnt working right now and we are aiming to fix asap.

Apologies for the ongoing issues, stick with us, we will solve them.
Thanks!!!

(as opposed to all those idiots...)
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WHICH GAMES will be played at cc7?
I bet it was sokal
Indeed. Cutting down the main source of negative comments regarding wolfenstein!

And here I was thinking their marketing sucked. Oh how they proved me wrong ;)!
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it's a conspiracy!
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Guys, look at the good site of it all: there has been no whine about Wolfenstein, the beta has never leaked out, there hasnt been a delivery of beta game, there havent been any lies told us by sokal... you name it!

(And i also think it was sokal's revenge our whine which now seems to have never existed! :d).
also LOWEST EC EVER never occurred
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and last but not least: "YOU HAVE NOT BEEN WANRED"
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EPIC LULZ
I blame Germany swine
same here...i always knew is like plague for ET! xD
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the days that crossfire was down, i was crying in bed whole day long.. <3 cF
So basically it comes down to CF ran without any kind of data-redundancy raid variant and no regular backup plan, so my question is, who installed CF like that?
do you still have the database from crossfire, and if you have it would that be useful ?
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you are shit out of luck cuz I cleaned out tons of files about 2 weeks ago, and that included the DB's
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can i get one database as well? seems everyone can get one.
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i never had it :) (Crossfire database ofcourse)
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and you're sure that going with a windows server is a good idea?
nice, my account got unbanned
wooooohoooooooooooooooooo!!! \o/
i cant edit my profile
is this the official version? i still worry to smell some pansemuckl´s around here?
need CC7 info asap :(
Lol Lost pic's Clan s and 500 Hits wtf
wooooohoooooooooooooooooo!!! \o/
finally my boredom ends
How the hell don't you do backups ATLEAST 1 per week? like wtf :O
We do, but they were on the server as backups and on the hard drive that died. This is how most sites work, although most sites are also hosted on raid hard drive setups for just this reason. Sadly this wasnt the case, so it had to be a manual backup. That said, we have put things in place to ensure this doesnt happen again.
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a backup on the same hard drive is not a backup tbh
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I would suggest you to go learn something about backup systems and networks tbh.. a backup at same hdd :DDD that makes me lol -.-
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missed crossfire :(
Holy shit... :(
finally its back just lost like 80% of my hits, 50% of my friends list 95% of my profile and a few clans XDD
its about time you spend the ad money on crossfire instead of covering your bar tab
So no redundancy on the hard-drive? Maybe this time there will be adequate measures to backup the data.
pretty sad for such a big community that there's only a backup from march...other communities creating backups at least every month<<< greets to the admins nice job you did there :O
"we learned several things now"

epic fail :D
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yeah because they learned nothing from the crash back in 06
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Seems I can start deleting all my buddies again.
HAHAHAHAH :DDDD
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i got my old nick back :<
always sucks if a HDD dies due to a headcrash !! ..
and there wasn't a second HDD on which you could have stored monthly or weekly backups? :(((
No back ups? Bet that was an interesting conversation :)

Hope no uploaded the only copy of their movies here. Nice for it to be back though.
For those who are having issues with loggin in still, please drop me a pm on irc with ur username and email and I will reset your pass for you.
QuoteIf your account is banned and it shouldn't be

I think you should edit it to "If your account isn't banned and it should be pm and admin'
more useful
March, what the :-(
WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<3
March? I have birthday soon! Give your HB's plz.
thankyou guys well done for getting it back

although maybe get some backup servers coz march is a long time for the last backup
Not only is recent data lost, functionality is back to March 2009 as well. :(
aaaa .... :PŠ
you guys are stupid. why you only maked a backup @ march?
Crossfire is a forum where alot of people have fun. so its so fucked up when you lost data on your profile.
Make this a lesson!
MAKE MORE BACKUPS!
Every month orsomething then.
my profile is outdated :( cant be fucked to update it! xD

cc7 oioiiiiiiiiiii ;D
all that hard work of spam for nothing
Site with liek:
10 news/day
10 000 visitors/day
10 000 000 recruiting/searching clan-topics/day
10 000 000 000 cheater-bust-topics/day
10 000 000 000 000 000 000 journals/day

and you make backups liek once a year ?

now thats professional stuff right there!

well done, hail xfire!
And none of them is about rtcw :XDDD
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:D:D:D lol toi oli iha hyvä
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10^666 warning points given by chosen / day x[
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Have you ever heard raid5 or cluster?
welcome back
Good to have it back
Seriously, stop whining about "omg I lost my hits"

If you go to a community just to gather this kind of 'popularity' you should really reflect upon what you want from this life...
WHOUUU

Still got my account :)
Member For: 2 years, 2 months and 3 days
The CF community just loooooooooooves to bitch!

I'm pretty certain those in charge of the backup stuff did in fact learn their lesson as they stated. No need for all of us here stating the obvious :o)!

So what did you guys have for dinner?!
FUCK YOU CROSSFIRE
How can you do a backup once in 6months?...
We just lost 4000 members ;<

RIP
i really miss u crossfire :DDD
Crossfire got so many admins and no one saved backups on his PC rather than on the same hdd where the site lays? please.
I have been in a lot of forums as member and this site has the shittest admins by far. :D
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Nice daily backup :) wb
gief profile back
now one can follow how the community is flaming on wolfenstein again :>
lol, learn to backup daily you morons... im really amazed how stupid site owner can be not to have backup , do you live in prehistoric or what????

such pr0s....

and lesson learned?? lol ... you could write that in 1990... not now... this is not lesson learned, this just show how incapable u are at running a site. I thought that commercial shit u are running on banners would atleast buy you a raid5 field if not a daily backup machine, i guess that money flows somewhere else...
Hello captain obvious.

You're right though, you have to be the biggest fucking moron not to backup daily, and if you do create backups, dont just put them on the server HD...

Crossfire admins, its time to find someone with a brain to run this shit.
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They made a backup regularly. It was just saved on the same hdd.
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yes, rly smart guys over here. Atleast they could had run RAID 1.
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how can someone call it backup if its stored on the same HDD is beyond me....

i think someone who didnt finish elementary school is ''running'' the site...
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OMG YOU FUCKING RETARDS!! WORST ADMINS EVER!!!!!!!! HOW CAN YOU NOT MAKE A DAILY BACKUP OF SUCH IMPORTANT CONTENT, THAT IS SIMPLY PREPOSTEROUS!!!! HOW FUCKING STUPID CAN YOU BE??????????? I LOST SO MUCH DATA BECAUSE OF YOUR INCOMPETENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Penis lover, dont like it ? LEAVE!
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Why didn't you make a daily backup of your data ? :P
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omfg i was making my profile so long, now its shit again :[
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