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09-10-2014, 07:59 PM
I just returned from my vacation hours ago and as I was unpacking, I called the Best Buy data recovery center since their online tracking site had not been updated in 5 days. They apparently were able to run a diagnosis in about a half hour (dunno why they couldn't have done that days ago), and informed me that there is a power supply failure on the drive and the circuit board was fried. This requires their 'Level 3' attempt to recover the data. Which is $1550.
The amount in Thay's vault is at $573.50, with an estimated ~$250 more coming through snail mail, so we are well short of that outrageous amount to recover data through Best Buy. If they can't recover anything, they charge 'only' $100 (in addition to the $49 that is already non-refundable), if they can recover *some*, but not all, they still charge $1000 (un. real.). So unless there is some guardian angel(s) who come through with more than double of what the rest of this generous community has already given, I will be forced to abandon the data recovery effort and I'm willing to refund donations to people who gave only to try and get some type of data recovery done.
The only good news I can give at this time is that I should be receiving a new drive for the server tomorrow, as well as my new home computer. I plan to work on both and have the NWN server up hopefully by late tomorrow, or Friday to at least give people something to play in the interim. BUT, the data recovery option is now most likely not going to happen, which means either 1) some type of server reboot or starting anew (again) or 2), either using the February backup as either a base or putting a pretty steep burden on our DM team to try and rebuild a main character for each currently active player to where it was 2 weeks ago.
There are probably variations of either option, and while I am a bit hesitant to open the flood gates wide open to try and get everyone's opinion on what should be done, if you do have a great suggestion, or feel pretty strongly about doing something one way or the other, feel free to post. As I am jet-lagged right now, running on little real sleep in over a day (after having had a strenuous hiking/walking final day in Hawaii), and not had a shower in ~24 hours, I need some time to decide what to do long-term and will check in again tomorrow.
The amount in Thay's vault is at $573.50, with an estimated ~$250 more coming through snail mail, so we are well short of that outrageous amount to recover data through Best Buy. If they can't recover anything, they charge 'only' $100 (in addition to the $49 that is already non-refundable), if they can recover *some*, but not all, they still charge $1000 (un. real.). So unless there is some guardian angel(s) who come through with more than double of what the rest of this generous community has already given, I will be forced to abandon the data recovery effort and I'm willing to refund donations to people who gave only to try and get some type of data recovery done.
The only good news I can give at this time is that I should be receiving a new drive for the server tomorrow, as well as my new home computer. I plan to work on both and have the NWN server up hopefully by late tomorrow, or Friday to at least give people something to play in the interim. BUT, the data recovery option is now most likely not going to happen, which means either 1) some type of server reboot or starting anew (again) or 2), either using the February backup as either a base or putting a pretty steep burden on our DM team to try and rebuild a main character for each currently active player to where it was 2 weeks ago.
There are probably variations of either option, and while I am a bit hesitant to open the flood gates wide open to try and get everyone's opinion on what should be done, if you do have a great suggestion, or feel pretty strongly about doing something one way or the other, feel free to post. As I am jet-lagged right now, running on little real sleep in over a day (after having had a strenuous hiking/walking final day in Hawaii), and not had a shower in ~24 hours, I need some time to decide what to do long-term and will check in again tomorrow.