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Quote from: pyromaniac on October 23, 2012, 07:27:37 AM

Do you know, how soon ASICs will be available? Will they come out earlier than BFL to get more profit with current difficulty?

Since I don't know when BFL releases, I can't say if we will come out before or after. And your question has not much sense: of course we will try to be ready as fast as possible. As I already stated, our units will be ready between december and january. Difficulty will rise so fast and there are so many pre-orders out there that when ASICs will become available, nobody will get "huge profits". Of course the first ones will have a slightly higher profit at first, but it will be for a short time and I don't think it will be that great.

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he stated ~3 months or so if all goes as planned a few posts ago..

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Quote from: pyramining on October 23, 2012, 07:00:15 AM

Web service restored, blockchain data backed up. :-)

Good news! Cheesy

Do you know, how soon ASICs will be available? Will they come out earlier than BFL to get more profit with current difficulty?

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nicely done

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Web service restored, blockchain data backed up. :-)

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Quote from: symbot on October 23, 2012, 03:30:56 AM

Quote from: pyramining on October 23, 2012, 01:13:03 AM

I already reported the problem on the 0.7.1 thread ( here ). I did the upgrade with confidence because I never experienced any problems in doing it until now. Next time I will do several tests before upgrading again. Also I am going to take a backup of the sane blockchain after it finishes to download it again, so should it happen again for any reason, I will not need to download it entirely.

Currently, backups of the blockchain have been done without stopping the bitcoind process and it seems that it leads to integrity problems. The problem doesn't apply to the wallet.dat because I export it with the dedicated command before backing it up.

This sounds like it has been a huge headache for you. As an investor, I really appreciate all your hard work to get the website back up & running.

+1

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Quote from: pyramining on October 23, 2012, 01:13:03 AM

I already reported the problem on the 0.7.1 thread ( here ). I did the upgrade with confidence because I never experienced any problems in doing it until now. Next time I will do several tests before upgrading again. Also I am going to take a backup of the sane blockchain after it finishes to download it again, so should it happen again for any reason, I will not need to download it entirely.

Currently, backups of the blockchain have been done without stopping the bitcoind process and it seems that it leads to integrity problems. The problem doesn't apply to the wallet.dat because I export it with the dedicated command before backing it up.

This sounds like it has been a huge headache for you. As an investor, I really appreciate all your hard work to get the website back up & running.

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Quote from: pyramining on October 23, 2012, 02:06:55 AM

Quote from: Akka on October 23, 2012, 01:21:19 AM

This raises the question how backups are handled.

Are all Account informations and the Wallet backed up on a regular basis?

Of course. Database and wallet.dat are exported and backed up hourly, keeping several copies (several > 50). Whole server is backed up daily. Sources are managed with GIT on a private repository. The repository is backed up on a daily basis too. The only thing I didn't spend much time on was backing up reliably the blockchain because it can be downloaded anytime. However I see it's taking a lot of time, so I am planning reliable backups of it, too.

Thx. I had wondered if it where different. But you wouldn't believe, what stupid mistakes some people that should now better sometimes do.

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Quote from: Akka on October 23, 2012, 01:21:19 AM

This raises the question how backups are handled.

Are all Account informations and the Wallet backed up on a regular basis?

Of course. Database and wallet.dat are exported and backed up hourly, keeping several copies (several > 50). Whole server is backed up daily. Sources are managed with GIT on a private repository. The repository is backed up on a daily basis too. The only thing I didn't spend much time on was backing up reliably the blockchain because it can be downloaded anytime. However I see it's taking a lot of time, so I am planning reliable backups of it, too.

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wanted to show a potential investor but the site was offline. hope the downgrade won't take too long.

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Quote from: pyramining on October 23, 2012, 01:13:03 AM

Quote from: btharper on October 23, 2012, 12:35:02 AM

If this is a bug in the system, then thank you for being an important corner case for them to test with, sorry about having to be a test subject

I already reported the problem on the 0.7.1 thread ( here ). I did the upgrade with confidence because I never experienced any problems in doing it until now. Next time I will do several tests before upgrading again. Also I am going to take a backup of the sane blockchain after it finishes to download it again, so should it happen again for any reason, I will not need to download it entirely.

Currently, backups of the blockchain have been done without stopping the bitcoind process and it seems that it leads to integrity problems. The problem doesn't apply to the wallet.dat because I export it with the dedicated command before backing it up.

Hy Pyramining,

you can report bugs directly to the developers issue list here:

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on October 19, 2012, 08:23:31 AM

Bitcoin version 0.7.1 is now available from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.1/

This is a bug-fix minor release.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

this way they will be directly in their todo list.

Also, I read your post in this thread, seems like you are running your own server.

This raises the question how backups are handled.

Are all Account informations and the Wallet backed up on a regular basis?

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Quote from: btharper on October 23, 2012, 12:35:02 AM

If this is a bug in the system, then thank you for being an important corner case for them to test with, sorry about having to be a test subject

I already reported the problem on the 0.7.1 thread ( here ). I did the upgrade with confidence because I never experienced any problems in doing it until now. Next time I will do several tests before upgrading again. Also I am going to take a backup of the sane blockchain after it finishes to download it again, so should it happen again for any reason, I will not need to download it entirely.

Currently, backups of the blockchain have been done without stopping the bitcoind process and it seems that it leads to integrity problems. The problem doesn't apply to the wallet.dat because I export it with the dedicated command before backing it up.

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Quote from: pyramining on October 22, 2012, 04:08:31 PM

I expect that the issue will be solved in a few hours. On other computers bitcoind 0.7.1 is running smoothly so I am afraid that this problem depends on the huge wallet.dat (~200MB).

Of course if this problem goes away with the previous release, I will write to the developers in order to let them know about this trouble.

If this is a bug in the system, then thank you for being an important corner case for them to test with, sorry about having to be a test subject

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I expect that the issue will be solved in a few hours. On other computers bitcoind 0.7.1 is running smoothly so I am afraid that this problem depends on the huge wallet.dat (~200MB).

Of course if this problem goes away with the previous release, I will write to the developers in order to let them know about this trouble.

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last time he updated the server it took like 24h... i would expect it to be around the same now

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Still offline. Any idea when it will be back?

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Quote from: pyramining on October 22, 2012, 09:12:08 AM

I am afraid I have to restore the previous version, 0.7.1 is not stable enough. I have to keep the site offline a bit more.

I wonder if other BTC websites have the same issue? Or maybe this is an issue because you use such a huge amount of addresses.

Anyway, you should probably report you experiences to the developers, or at last post it here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-qtbitcoind-version-071-released-119277

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I am afraid I have to restore the previous version, 0.7.1 is not stable enough. I have to keep the site offline a bit more.

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nice to see you fixed it that fast

good work

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Bitcoind was stuck and unresponsive. Service has been restored, and now I am keeping an eye on it. If it happens again, I will revert to previous version.

Since last time I received some PM of people concerned about the bitcoin mining activity: while the website is down, miners keep doing their work, there is no profit loss. It's only the web user interface that temporarily is out of service.

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