The database is back online and I'm going through and fixing code bugs (I had to make a ton of changes to tighten things up).  The basic crew searches work again but there is permanent damage.

All the movie/book/CD/DVD data was damaged beyond recovery and has been eliminated from the website.  Probably 75 percent of the links have been damaged but can be repaired over time (that's the LINKS page and the BOAT SITES pages!).

Worst of all, the email addresses for registered folks were damaged.  I was able to recover a great many of them but somewhere up to maybe 40% are damaged (shortened in length) and therefore unusable.  But as Pat Householder reminded me, people go through emails all the time and high percentage of them are bad anyway and will, in time, be corrected by their owners.

I'm hoping the bastards that did this are locked out now but it'll take a few days to see if they get back in.

It's taken close to five days of non-stop to get it back this far... if I get hit again... I may have to throw in the towel on the database stuff - it's just taking way too much time.

Let me know if you find bugs!

Don, Thanks for taking all the time and energy in restoring this data.  It is important to most submariners that we not lose our record of submarine service.  It is important to us now for staying in touch with our shipmates, and for future historians in researching who the crews were that manned these submarines, not to mention to our families.

There are two premier online databases for sub crew records.  Between them they contain records, at least the names, of nearly 80,000 submariners, and the boats they served in.  There is considerable overlap between the two systems, which is fine.  Better duplicated than none at all.  Plus, if the unimaginable does happen as nearly occured here, the other system is still online.  After all, the battle against the cyber creeps never ends.

If you have not done so, please see that you are logged into BOTH systems, for posterity sake.  First, check to see if your name appears and if not, add it to each system.  www.submarinesailor.com is one, of course, and the other is the USSVI/DECKOG system at www.decklog.com  (If you are a USSVI, NSL or SVWWII member, your record of service is already there.)

These online records are just too valuable to us all to see them destroyed, and I for one am very appreciative of all the hard work that Don Gentry has put into this project.

Edited by PatH 2009-07-16 5:13 PM

Don, you are so....

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Don, thanks for all you have done and continue to do.  As Pat said, having somewhere our data can reside is very important. Also important is having this site to talk, listen, and learn from.

Viejo

No... wish I did... don't know where it's coming from.... very frustrating!