Site Status / Crash recovery information and planning

[bizzgeburt]

I'm already in the process of submitting new front pictures.
First I'm doing the ones in my Sega Game Gear collection & wish list, which I had totally filled with all data available before the data loss. When finished, PAL Game Gear entries will look beautiful again 

[sworddude]

I'm pretty sure we lost 30% of all front images 

if only we lost back covers instead 

[dhaabi]

I'm pretty sure we lost 30% of all front images

32,000 entries out of about 280,000 would be about 11.5% of total affected entries, but I imagine that number to be closer to 12.5%–13% Not all of those 280,000 entries are live as some have, over the years, been removed for various reasons (e.g. items we don't track, duplicates, empty entry pages.) I don't know how many entries still exist, though, so knowing what the percentage total is can only be estimated. Of course, admins may know the total number of live entries. Regardless, it's a hefty loss and mostly affected older entries which is why the affected entries are for more common platforms like Nintendo and PlayStation since they were added to the database first.

Also, thanks to all of those who've made major efforts so far toward restoring entry art. It's greatly appreciated.

[sworddude]

I'm pretty sure we lost 30% of all front images

32,000 entries out of about 280,000 would be about 11.5% of total affected entries, but I imagine that number to be closer to 12.5%–13% Not all of those 280,000 entries are live as some have, over the years,

Depending on luck it's going to be far worse than that.

I rarely have any pages in which I don't have to update 7+ items or way worse. and each page is 25 items and it's some of the best games that are missing images. I think the number is far worse than just 12%

if it was just 12% I'd only have to update 2 to maybe 4 games per page. reality is far far worse. and considering the titles that are hit it's definitely not as low as data suggests

[tripredacus]

These are the numbers from round 2 (March 3rd) so it won't include the 4k images restored prior to that.

249,272 items were marked as having a front image in the DB
41,359 front images were missing
32,226 images were not archived

[sworddude]

These are the numbers from round 2 (March 3rd) so it won't include the 4k images restored prior to that.

249,272 items were marked as having a front image in the DB
41,359 front images were missing
32,226 images were not archived

guess I have been more unlucky than average even if I where to reduce the numbers with other stuff had to alter 31% of my collection in terms of front images.

[nathan776]

These are the numbers from round 2 (March 3rd) so it won't include the 4k images restored prior to that.

249,272 items were marked as having a front image in the DB
41,359 front images were missing
32,226 images were not archived

guess I have been more unlucky than average even if I where to reduce the numbers with other stuff had to alter 31% of my collection in terms of front images.

Thank you for uploading images

The vast majority of images lost seem to be in the first half of the database. For example I've went through the first 2056 Item Numbers and they have almost exclusively been Xbox [NA] and PS2 [NA]. I'd say it was over half of the items at that early stage that had lost images.

[pfogel]

Just looked through my collection and 16 front images are missing. For many I was the one initially uploading them and since I keep them on my drive I can just reupload them.

Just a question out of interest? Will the finished list be back? When it was introduced I moved the finished date from the collection note to the finished list with the purchase date as the finishing date. Would be nice to have them back.

[dhaabi]

Just a question out of interest? Will the finished list be back? When it was introduced I moved the finished date from the collection note to the finished list with the purchase date as the finishing date. Would be nice to have them back.

Restoring the Finished list is on our internal task list, and it should return in time.

[tripredacus]

Finished list is being worked on currently.

[bizzgeburt]

Finished list is being worked on currently.

That's news I was eagerly waiting for thanks a lot.

[BinaryMessiah]

Do we need to add images that are missing, or do we need to hold off and keep waiting for the database to update? I don't want to start mass submitting images and bog anything down. I'm not sure if you guys need help from the users or not.

[dhaabi]

Do we need to add images that are missing, or do we need to hold off and keep waiting for the database to update? I don't want to start mass submitting images and bog anything down. I'm not sure if you guys need help from the users or not.

https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,13012.0.html

[BinaryMessiah]

Do we need to add images that are missing, or do we need to hold off and keep waiting for the database to update? I don't want to start mass submitting images and bog anything down. I'm not sure if you guys need help from the users or not.

https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,13012.0.html

Okay...so if I'm understanding this correctly, we just wait, and over time everything will get restored?

[dhaabi]

Do we need to add images that are missing, or do we need to hold off and keep waiting for the database to update? I don't want to start mass submitting images and bog anything down. I'm not sure if you guys need help from the users or not.

https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,13012.0.html

Okay...so if I'm understanding this correctly, we just wait, and over time everything will get restored?

To my understanding, two separate restoration attempts were made. Everything that could have been done was, meaning entries will need to be manually updated going forward. At the time of that post, 32,00 entries were still affected with missing front images.