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  • IPTIA Lost Data

    From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to DOVE-Net.Advertisements on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 19:41:37
    The IPTIA Telnet BBS Resource Site suffered a catastrophic event
    where multiple hard drives failed.

    User edits and password assignments made between 12/15/2025 and
    10/15/2026 may have been lost.

    Please review and edit your sites as needed.

    New passwords will be assigned by email request.

    https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/
    sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com

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    ¡ Synchronet ¡ IPTIA - bbs2.ipingthereforeiam.com:2323
  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to dragon on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 13:42:03
    Re: IPTIA Lost Data
    By: dragon to DOVE-Net.Advertisements on Tue Oct 20 2026 07:41 pm

    The IPTIA Telnet BBS Resource Site suffered a catastrophic event
    where multiple hard drives failed.

    User edits and password assignments made between 12/15/2025 and
    10/15/2026 may have been lost.

    Please review and edit your sites as needed.

    New passwords will be assigned by email request.

    https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/
    sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com

    Sorry to hear that and not trolling here, but do you NOT have a backup
    plan?

    My provider gives me backup space and i use that and multiple redundant ways to backup. i have it all automated so i just have to check if it is still working once in a while. I took down almost all the services i was running for the bbs Community and i still do backups.


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  • From StingRay@VERT/ANETBBS to dragon on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 23:58:00
    --- dragon wrote:
    The IPTIA Telnet BBS Resource Site suffered a catastrophic event
    where multiple hard drives failed.

    User edits and password assignments made between 12/15/2025 and
    10/15/2026 may have been lost.

    Please review and edit your sites as needed.

    New passwords will be assigned by email request.

    https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/
    sysop

    Sorry to hear that.
  • From dragon@VERT/IPTIA to MRO on Thursday, October 22, 2026 20:36:27
    On Wed 2026/10/21 14:42, MRO wrote:
    Re: IPTIA Lost Data
    By: dragon to DOVE-Net.Advertisements on Tue Oct 20 2026 07:41 pm

    The IPTIA Telnet BBS Resource Site suffered a catastrophic event
    where multiple hard drives failed.

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    https://i.imgur.com/MNKA5U0.png
    President of BBS Sysop's Union +++ https://bbses.info/union
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    ¨ Synchronet ¨ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::

    One of the drives that failed was in the backup/archive server. It was
    ugly.

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    ­ Synchronet ­ IPTIA - bbs2.ipingthereforeiam.com:2323
  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to dragon on Friday, October 23, 2026 00:01:03
    Re: Re: IPTIA Lost Data
    By: dragon to MRO on Thu Oct 22 2026 08:36 pm

    One of the drives that failed was in the backup/archive
    server. It was
    ugly.


    oh that's too bad. maybe consider doing additional automated backups to
    free providers. i'm a backup nut but it's saved me. there's always
    something going wrong. and make sure it's backing up periodically.


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    https://i.imgur.com/MNKA5U0.png
    President of BBS Sysop's Union +++ https://bbses.info/union
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    ■ Synchronet ■ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::