I am very sorry but as the title indicates, the last 3 days of data on StocksCafe Forum (forum.stocks.cafe) are lost. Please rest assured that this did not affect other StocksCafe systems and/or data at all as they are on independent servers. I am now glad that I spent the extra money to keep them separated.
Why?
The main reason is mostly due to my ignorance. I was trying to update the open source forum (i.e.
Discourse forum) and somehow failed badly and had to do a roll back and the latest backup I had was 3 days ago.
How to prevent future data lost?
From this mistake, I have learnt and understood the updating processes better and believe this mistake would not happen again. However, there could always be many ways things could go wrong. Hence I have increased the backup frequency to daily so ...