Forum offline for repair today (9-Feb)

[Ted Hess]

Hi all -

Last nite I was doing a routine forum upgrade and ran into a number of 
problems caused by things like a policy change at the docker.io image 
repository access for free accounts, a failed database service upgrade 
(postgres v13 to v15) and now a failed volume mount at Digital Ocean 
during the upgrade. The first 2 items were worked around OK but the 
volume mount problem has caused us to lose all uploaded data like posted 
images and forum decorations and customizations.

There is a possibility of recovering our lost data from DO which I am 
working on currently. In the meantime, the forum is offline while we try 
to retrieve the data. The most painful part of this process is that the 
forum backups were on the missing volume. It is possible that the 
virtual block volume mounted is not the correct one and there is a 
(remote) possibility of getting the correct one back. In the meantime, 
the forum will remain down until we find a resolution. In the worse 
scenario, we just lost all our uploaded data AND older backups - not 
good.

/ted