Hi Dennis

I have started a thread in the Access forum:
DBForums Code Bank

By definition this thread is going to represent quite a lot of work and time on the part of me certainly and hopefully several other Access contributers.

I had a bit of a panicy moment just now. I don't need to know the details but would you be able to offer assurances that the disaster recovery and backup procedures are now in place and robust? That short of the production and off site backup servers simultaneously melting present and future posts are totally safe?

I'm sure you understand I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket if there is any risk of losing the thread

TIA for any reassurance you can provide (or any that you cannot).

pootle flump ur codings are working excelent.

keep your own backup, pootie

that is the only sane strategy given the circumstances

there still are occasional screwups on this site -- i almost said database screwups, but you know what? it ain't the database screwing up, it's the app (vBulletin)

e.g. overlapping date ranges (was "SQL Query Help")

Yeah - good and obvious (except to me of course - duh) point. I've got all the original files of course but you are right - I will keep backups of the text

Thanks Rudy

pootle flump ur codings are working excelent.

Hi Dennis

Follow up question

Is there a lock out on editing posts? I don't seem to be able to edit some posts I made a few days agao, specifically:
http://www.dbforums.com/showpost.php...79&postcount=2

I spot checked a few others. Recent are fine, anything a week or so or older is uneditable.

Follow up question to my follow up question
If there is a lock out after a week - are Mods limited too?

pootle flump ur codings are working excelent.

We have nightly backups in place and still we store complete monthlys offsite.

I'm not sure any data is "completly safe." But I'm confident what we have in place will ensure the integrity of dBf.

then could you please explain what happened to the thread i linked to in post #2 here -- there was an original post and 5 replies, and as yuou can see all but the last are gone, gone, gone

loss of integrity, i'd call it

Waiting to hear back on that, Rudy.

hey, no problem, i don't need to see a busted thread

i just offer evidence, when i can, to demonstrate that things are ~not~ back to normal

there's nothing personal in that, it does not reflect on you, nor do i expect anything further to be done about it

gone is gone

But I wanna know what happened too!