happypenguin / LGT has been down for a month, any alternatives ?
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happypenguin / LGT has been down for a month, any alternatives ?
You may or may not have noticed, but: http://happypenguin.org/
is down and has been down for a month, and I am wondering if it will ever come back up.
Are there any similar alternative linux gaming sites ?
I know there is: http://www.linuxgames.com/
but most of the games posted are proprietary. I'd prefer more FLOSS games. And the site layout is not good.
Just post whatever other game sites you visit regularly.
Forgot this site. The navigation is absolutely horrid, and the information seems outdated on most, but there is still good content. http://gwos.org/doku.php
Last edited by disturbed1; 11-02-2010 at 12:50 PM.
You can almost feel their frustration. Hard drive and backup systems going at the same time. Wow. At least they are keeping people updated. I hope they can get things up and running soon, if at least for their sanity.
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Due to a hard drive failure which occurred at the same time as our backup system failed, the site is currently down. We expect to have full data recovery within the next few days.
As of 9th Oct 2010 the data recovery is still ongoing. We have been told to expect a result early next week, so crossed fingers, we are hoping to have service resumed on or around the 13th Oct.
As of 15th Oct 2010 the data recovery is still ongoing. Apparently the Western Digital HDD that died has corrupted itsown firmware, making it hard to extract the data from the disc.
As such, we are beginning the process of backup recovery from our most recent tier 2 backups which are a few weeks out of date, but waiting on the tier 1 recovery is getting ridiculous. We plan on working over the weekend on this recovery, and hope to have more news for you shortly.
As of 22nd Oct 2010 data recovery is STILL ongoing. The Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drive that failed has chemical degredation on the surface making the data recovery much slower and harder.
All going well, we will have the older backups making sense soon, and will be back up to speed.
As of Nov 4th, we have been unable to bring the site back up yet, due to the discovery that the older backups bring brought online would end up with a number of users being unable to access their games due to copy protection issues. As such, rather than give ANY user a problem with their legally purchased game, we will be keeping the site down for the next few days while the final stages of data recovery are performed. All going well, we hope to be back up towards the start of next week.
I'd suggest checking the site tomorrow and then every couple of days, looks like the restore tasks are messy.
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