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[Freepgs do not perform backups of user data]

Hey, despite not being a member of freepgs staff i can confirm the following:

Freepgs do not perform backups of user data
- However in this case they will attempt to retrieve as much data as they can (according to admin)

Both hard disks in the MYSQL5 server RAID array have now failed (according to admin)

In most cases, the data on the MySQL5 server should not be lost.  We are attempting to run a chkdsk operation on the drive now to see if any of the "missing" files can be recovered.  [Hopefully, most users will not have any missing tables or data]

Once this new drive is in, the array will be rebuilt.  The array is not able to keep up with demands at this time.  Attempted access may result in data loss.  Once the first failed drive is replaced, we will replace the second drive to ensure we have two good drives on the system.

Thank you,
FreePgs.com Admin

Well I guess I just found out the hard way, why the hosting here is so inexpensive

So no backups are done here at all?

While technically, Mysql database data can be divided between "user" and "system" data, it makes little sense to backup the  system data without backing up the actual *data*

Mike

The "Owner" column in net2ftp basically says the owner of the file. Any file marked "501" is a user's file. Almost all of these files can be edited (the main exception being .ftpquota). Any file marked "48" is a PHP created file, and you'd have to use php to change it.

Ok, thx, that removes the mystery

Mike

The problem is that files and folders created with PHP have different permissions on them (that don't allow them to be editted from FTP, etc). The way to remedy that would simply be to use the chmod() function to change the permissions on the folder/file after creating them.

I've just run into the same problem and have found that I am able to chmod the files from a simple php script using the php chmod() command.   I don't understand how the permissions can be "differerent" (between net2ftp and php).

Mike