looks like a few posts were deleted...

[dopecoindude]

I guess it could be worst ? 

[Chef Ramsay]

Unless I'm guessing wrong or freewheeling, it seems legit to me. Idk.

[knight22]

Yup. Some post are definitely missing.

[MemoryShock]

Can confirm some posts are gone...I feel that there is no point in pushing it though.

[bitbaby]

Don't know if some posts are missing or not, maybe users will report if they have something important missing. But nevertheless, it's good to be back, yesterday was boring and I actually missed bitcointalk. 

[runpaint]

It was announced earlier today when they said they had disk failure, that some posts might be lost

We can rebuild them, we have the blockchain technology

Besides most of us probably regret a good bit of everything we type on here, so we get a do-over this once

[nextblast]

It's good we are back on.
Yes, some posts are lost, but 99.99% are safe and secure.
Wonder what kind of db BTT use.

[kpitti]

In the Meta section you can see explanation. Good job done.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

[Gronthaing]

In the Meta section you can see explanation. Good job done.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

Wrong link. That goes to hacked accounts recovery. Should be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932315.0 I didn't lose any post, but anything posted after 21 Jan 21:44 UTC was lost. But they can try to recover it if it's important and you remember a few keywords.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Yup. Some post are definitely missing.

Yep it ate a few posts
Oh well not any critical escrow information etc so not a big deal here.

[Kprawn]

Ah, good to be back.... hope the RAID issues are sorted out.

You do not know what you miss, until it's gone.  

Edit : "Searching is temporarily disabled"

[hilariousandco]

Any posts made on the 22nd were lost.

Edit:

About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

[Wendigo]

Any posts made on the 22nd were lost.

Edit:

About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

Can you salvage any of the lost data though? No backups of the disks at all?

[Stcgold]

ANN at twitter account :

https://twitter.com/bitcointalk

"if anything important was lost, I might be able to find it manually."

[pawel7777]

About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

I've lost ~5 post + 1 thread I started is gone.

But good to see forum is back.

[fairglu]

Can you salvage any of the lost data though? No backups of the disks at all?

Forum was restored from a daily backup.

See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932315.0 for technical details.

Apparently a pair of SSD died of old age, and/or might be the RAID controller lost its marbles. I have personally seen more RAID arrays die because of the RAID controller (corrupting data, not reporting errors, etc.), than because of multiple disk failures, so that would not be surprising.

[botany]

About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

I've lost ~5 post + 1 thread I started is gone.

But good to see forum is back.

A relief to see that the damage wasn't too bad.