Now you got me, two topics in one thread to answer 
(Ok, ok ok - I could have made two threads instead of one when splitting off this part, but another split??? )
@blackdid:
just short: I'm not at all annoyed or angry or whatever emotions you fear for an arguable topic selection - moderators and above have the split and merge option 
And I split the topic with the first reason that it can survive some thread-cleaning from raphjd
@blackdid:
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Thx for your explanation, these little bugs are not urgent to fix, Tom's health is THE priority.
Thanks for your wishes for Tom. I agree completely that his health is in fact THE priority. I had a phone talk with him this evening and of course told him also about your good wishes for his health. He also told me to say thank you for him. Â :hug:
@blackdid:
This brings a new question : should we create (or does it exist) a thread concerning non-Forum bugs ?
IIRC here is a sticky thread about site feature requests - IMHO bug fixing can also be regarded as a feature
@Kinsey6:
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Please slap me around for a while.
Don't force me to split this topic again and move your request to our (still to revive) Spanking SIG
But now to your more serious parts:
@Kinsey6:
My QUESTION is – ...
A major crash like this is dependent upon back-ups. Â I know that Tom remains ill and often unavailable.
At this time, are site back-ups being accomplished to avoid this in the future.
Those back-ups are VERY PLURAL:
- the MySQL database
- the server directory for torrents
- the server directory for torrent pictures
- the server area for other locations that escape me now
- a detail of mods and detailed site-changes that are available to re-install as needed
I am just concerned that after our recent crash being resolved many months later without clarity about back-up procedures being done -- maybe they are, but not acknowledged.
Even NEW options (forum downloads, forum "save drafts") are being added WITHOUT US (as members) knowing if these add-ons are being backed up.
Sorry for a LOL - but of course we do regular backups!
- Database: is completely backed up twice a day with the backup files themselves not remaining on the server but on several computers not only in our data-center but also on private computers (Tom's and mine). (These backups also include the separate forum databases.)
2-4) We backup the other server directories also regularly - alas the Server crashed while the transfer from the server to our private computers was currently running - that brought the result that we did not have a recent backup available but only an older one Keep in mind, that just the backup from the site (scripts, torrents and pictures) has a compressed size of > 5 GB ) and incremental backups need a real good strategy if you want to have lesser backup sizes and not too many incremental backup media.
- forum backups: (change log) is done by me - I don't alter directly on our server but only at home. So each and every change in the forum is automatically saved on my computer at home (besides the above mentioned regular backups).
Besides: that crash in January brought us to thinking about a better strategy to make and divert backups - behind the scenes there is a lot happening just in this direction - the only problem is to change a lot of our current backup procedures (without losing backups though) and get an even better emergency management in the future.
Another additional problem in January was that the complete file system on our main server was defective - we had to set-up the rented server completely with drive partitioning and formatting, a new operating system and all applications, sites … I'm still astonished that we managed to get that done in just a few days (many thanks to Tom who worked his a** off in that time which was not really good for his health ).
I think that our current backup strategy is working (although there will always be place to improving). That does not mean we are really secured against all and every crash that can and will happen with computers - but (let me bring a lighter tone in this posting now :)) I think we are better secured than all those members who complain on our help desk about "having lost all their torrent and video files" after a crash (without any backup and of course directly after their download rights were taken away) Even in thirty years as a programmer/system operator/customer support member/manager - I never experienced so many crashes/formatted hard drives like in around 6 months on our help desk
Wobei das schon ein Teil einer Antwort war: Seeden, seeden seeden. Wenn Du fertig bist mit Seeden seede noch ein bisschen weiter - damit kannst Du Dir zumindestens Seed Bonus Punkte "erseeden" die Du später in Upload traffic umtauschen kannst um Deine Ratio zu erhöhen. (Hast Du ja scho ausprobiert - Ich würde nur etwas warten bis Du 350 SBPs zusammen hast, 350 Punkte ergibt 5 GB, 100 Punkte "nur" 1 GB