Originally Posted by Hessah
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i sure hope they have a backup server / database thingy for that...
I've never really heard of any host losing /messing up an entire database? o-o surely its common sense and knowledge that everything needs to be backed up?
or that i hvnt heard, doesnt mean it has never happened.... hmmmm
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The closest thing I know to that is 'White Wednesday' in KoL (Kingdom of Loathing) It wasn't the server-hosts who did it though.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, Jick accidentally deleted several data tables during rollover, causing all users' alternate ascension inventories (at Hagnk's) to be reverted back to their previous state as of September 6. This accident has come to be known as "White Wednesday." It took more than 32 hours for Jick to bring the game back online because he had to use the full backup from September.
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They turned it to their advantage.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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As an apology, all players received a special item called petrified time. The developers created new game content in the form of temporal rifts that sent players backwards and forwards in time and provided an in-storyline explanation for the accident, referred to as "The Great Time Catastrophe." In the following weeks, Jick and the Asymmetric Publications staff worked to restore valuable items to players who had lost them. By December 2005, most of the temporal rifts closed, although one remains as a permanent feature.
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I wish Outspark could do things like that xD