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by bcss
Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:10 am
Forum: News & Events
Topic: Mal Weobley
Replies: 2
Views: 2493

Mal Weobley

I regret to inform members that I have received this message from Den Skinner this morning:

Mal Webley died unexpectedly at home this morning. Would appreciiate if you could let any other interested parties know. Thanks

No further details at the moment
by bcss
Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:02 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Coronavirus and your branch
Replies: 39
Views: 12258

Re: Coronavirus and your branch

Littlehampton branch has postponed both its AGM on April 20th and its meeting on May 11th
by bcss
Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:46 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

Most of the problems I am aware of have been cleared up. However I sure there may be some I have missed. At this point I would welcome an error reports (and you can now use cacti@cacti-mall.com again).
by bcss
Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:40 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

Quite a number of sites are now back on line. There are still residual problems assicaited with mysql logons and php include files, we hope to have most of these fixes during the next 24 hours.
by bcss
Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:39 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

The file corruptions from yesterday evening have been fixed. There are still some configuration errors to be resolved but I hope we will see some sites restored tomorrow.
by bcss
Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:45 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

I am afraid the file restores have gone very wrong. Files corrupted. Big setback. Yann Cochard and I working on it.
by bcss
Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:00 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

The server operating system has finally been restored by Fasthosts this morning at 8.30am. It has taken fractionally under 2 days after various glitches in the restore system. I have access to the system. We now have to restore all the backed up data to the main drives. Likely to take about 8 hours,...
by bcss
Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:46 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

A server rebuild is currently underway. This is taking longer than expected. Once this is complete all the backed up data (over 1Tb) will have to be copied back to the server before website restoration can commence.
by bcss
Fri Oct 11, 2019 6:09 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

I have set up temporary solutions for the following:

www.mesemb.org
www.asclepiad-international.org

Suzanne is now contactable at msg@mesemb.org or treasurer@asclepiad-international.org.

We are still working on the main server problem.
by bcss
Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:39 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server
Replies: 9
Views: 3654

Re: Major breakdown on Cactus-Mall web server

Further advice on Cactus-mall server breakdown. Fasthosts engineers are looking into how to restore services but solutions may take some time. Meanwhile if you you need to contact Suzanne or Tony Mace please use bcss@bcss.org.uk which is mostly still working. Mail to cactus-mall.com, paperweight-mal...