From irc:

As the team responsible for ensuring the longevity of our tracker, it saddens us deeply to have to announce this.

We have always faithfully and religiously taken very frequent backups of our database and images, to the point of being able to restore NWCD to within any 60 minute period we could possibly want in the event of a data loss.

Many of the most recent backups are proving unusable due to problems our server experienced in the few weeks leading up to complete hardware failure on September 23rd.

These problems were unknown to us right up to the point the tracker and site went down. It is now evident that we are not going to be able to fully restore the last 32 days leading up to that date. We have a portion of usable data from those 32 days, but not enough to restore the database fully and without creating a mess in the process.

It would also take a considerable amount of time.

Staff have talked and we feel it would be more beneficial to bring everything back up as soon as we can and ask our members to re-upload lost torrents from that period themselves.

This will enable moderators to concentrate on reexamining the 1k or so resolved gold submission reports we have lost and cannot recover on the torrent moderation side.

Given that the month of September was the most active month NWCD has experienced for some time, this is a significant loss that many of us will feel.

As a staff team, we will do whatever we can to assist our members in restoring their lost torrents to the site as quickly and simply as possible. We have all data relating to members who joined the site during those 32 days, and affected users will be re-invited to NWCD immediately after we restore the database and site using what we now believe is the most recent viable backup from the 22nd August.

Right now, our time is being dedicated to making final configurations to our new server and services.

We will make a further announcement when the site and tracker are restored.

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