Read Carefully!Not even a week on the job, the
server decided to have a temper tantrum today. This was a strange error as we have not come across this at all in previous crashes or log files. We narrowed it down to the server filling the hard drive that it's currently hosted upon. This meant we had to go through all the server files and
remove redundant files and/or old files. We started to remove log files, we freed up 5 GB, but this would not be enough. With a heavy heart, we decided to
remove dynmap due to its excessive storage usage! It used up over 130 GB. This unfortunate change does mean the
website map is no longer useable, and we have freed up all the space we need to keep the server going. We shall be looking at ways to bring back dynmap, but we need everyone to be patient with us at the moment as we are all very busy people.
Some issues which have happened with this unforeseen crash;
- Player inventories and enderchests have been wiped, we do believe this is due to some unchangeable UUID changes when bringing the server back online. We are working on a method to try and restore inventories as best as we can, we cannot guarantee this will be 100% perfect.
- Enderchests might be retrievable for SM+ from /flat, for us to do this we will require all SM to be truthful with items they had in their enderchests. -Reviewed this, this is not possible, I was mistaken before
- We have a
temp sign at /rules or when you first log-in which should restore some of your inventory, this restore is from the last time you played mini-games, this could have been yesterday, or it could be from 3 months ago so be mindful when you get your inventory. Please do not message us because you have not got all of it back, as we cannot deal with all these messages, we shall be handling the big ticket items only.
- We no longer have the sign at spawn. We are no longer restoring any items that were lost.
- Skyblock has completely broken due to unforeseen changes with UUID, we have taken the step to disable Skyblock for now due to this and spend longer resolving these issues.
- ALL MAPS have broken
this means all maps will need to recreated and transferred over, we shall try and assist where possible in making this as quick as possible. We shall be making a system at /flat to ensure we can transfer all maps;
- These will be donation chests accepting of maps (1 map of each type)
- Rename the map with your username, so we know where to deliver this map
- We shall deliver them to your /home home in a chest at this location.
- This may take some time so please do not ask repeatedly.
Unexpected bug fix:
- can finally bring you a fix to the nether portals, we have no idea what happened, but it is somehow fixed.
We are working hard to ensure such issues do not happen in the future and this is very much a learning process for many of us and we thank you for your patience and understanding while we have worked to resolve this crash.
- Sentinel Staff
