Gibbous.org Slowly Being Re-Made

I’m not sure how it happened, but poor maintenance by yours truly was certainly the primary reason for the death of Gibbous.org. I think Gentoo, more than most Linux distributions, needs a watchful eye. Upgrading a huge batch of packages after months of negligence can be dangerous if not done carefully.

It wasn’t quite death as (almost) nothing was lost. A few emails were probably lost in the ether, and all MySQL databases are gone. That last is a pain, but could’ve been prevented had I realized the database files themselves resided in the /var directory. I was a little too liberal in cleaning out my old, dead, install of Gentoo before I re-installed it.

Email
Email now seems to work.

Galleries
All images are still on the server, but because the databases were deleted the galleries will need to be recreated. I hope to do this tomorrow for each gallery, and at the same time upgrade them to the newest version of Gallery 2.

Sorry everyone!

dedd Website and Forum
This is probably the worst hit from the entire fiasco. All the forum posts were stored in a MySQL database, which is now gone. Besides being more careful, I should backup everything periodically.