As requested by the wonderful , I am indeed working on upgrading the cornstalker forums, upgrading them to PHPBB3. They have been down since 9 am today. Here’s the rundown (will be updated as time goes on!):

9ish: Forums shut down, full backup request sent
9:30 am: Full backup clocking in at 1.9 gigs. Downloads of that update failed.
10:15 am: ssh not accepted by CS server. AUGH
11:30 am: Backup Attempt #2 failed.
11:45 am: MySQL tables back up successful.
12:15 pm: Backup attempt #3 underway
1:00 pm: Backup attempt #3 failed- FTP server countinues to time out.
2:00 pm: Backup attempt #4 underway via cPanelX backup
2:47 pm: Backup attempt #4 at 820.7 megs and counting.
3:30 pm: Backup attempt #4 at 1973 megs and counting.
4:21 pm: Backup attempt #4 download complete- expanding to make sure file is complete and not corrupted.
4:46 pm: Backup attempt #4 successful. Starting upload of PHPBB3 and creation of MySQL tables
5:20 pm: Upload complete. Having troubles with MySQL connections.
6:26 pm: CORRUPTED TABLES CAPTAIN! MySQL is all fucked up. Reading some of the reactions so far hasn’t helped, either.
6:43 pm: Fixed tables, fixed connections (thanks Levi) now moving on to conversion. step 16 out of 23.
7:12 pm: Conversion complete, moved phpbb3 to the /forums folder, just doing some cleanup. Open for business at 7:30 pm. sharp
7:19 pm: Scratch that. I can’t tell when the forums are finished indexing the search stuff. It will be up tonight, hopefully.
8:50 It’s DONE.

http://www.cornstalker.com/forums/

I’m going to get dinner now.