Broken picture links

[Cubieman]

After that asshole hacked the site I see that numerous image links are dead, is this being worked on or are these all gone? I am NOT complaining, just simply curious.
Thanks for getting back online so quickly!

[liam821]

Yeah...the asshole blew away and corrupted the whole database. I was able to do some Unix magic and recover the database just before he did what he did. But, unfortunately, the table that holds the attachments metadata was pretty badly corrupted. My main focus yesterday was the actual post data/user data so I reloaded the last backup I had of the attachment metadata which was missing a bunch of data. I spent a good portion of my day today rebuilding by hand the attachment metadata table and was able to recover another 4656 images. I'm not sure how much was actually lost but I think I've recovered the vast majority of them.

Sorry Anybody that has a broken image, you should be able to go back to your post, edit it and upload / reattach the image.

[Cubieman]

Yeah...the asshole blew away and corrupted the whole database. I was able to do some Unix magic and recover the database just before he did what he did. But, unfortunately, the table that holds the attachments metadata was pretty badly corrupted. My main focus yesterday was the actual post data/user data so I reloaded the last backup I had of the attachment metadata which was missing a bunch of data. I spent a good portion of my day today rebuilding by hand the attachment metadata table and was able to recover another 4656 images. I'm not sure how much was actually lost but I think I've recovered the vast majority of them.

Sorry Anybody that has a broken image, you should be able to go back to your post, edit it and upload / reattach the image.

Thanks for all of your efforts bro. I'd like to find that dude and stomp his ass.

[WOLFN8TR]

Thanks for the effort getting the images restored.

[Da Jemster]

Thanks a bunch liam821 !

[Speed Monkey]

Thanks Liam! 👍

[heinzboehmer]

Thank you!

[Tbonem3]

Thank you

[COVID-19]

Thank you