Update on CodePlex outage...

Well, I inquired this morning about the CodePlex outage and received this warm & fuzzy personalized response :-)

 

At 3pm PDT on April 11th an operator error occurred 

that caused source control and issue tracker data on 

one of the Microsoft CodePlex servers to be accidentally 

overwritten. During the standard data recovery effort, 

a recovery backup configuration oversight was discovered 

in the routine backup process for this CodePlex server 

which is currently impacting immediate restoration of 

the data.
 
Note: The content in the Wiki as well as the release files 

have not been affected. This current outage only affects 

projects that were hosted on TFS03.
 
We are working on this situation as a matter of highest 

priority. All affected projects will have their source control 

and issue tracker functionality restored soon but the status 

of the source control and issue tracker data remains unknown 

at this time. We will report back with a status update within 

96 hours.
 
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have 

caused. The necessary corrections are already in place to 

ensure this situation will not occur again.

Ouch.  Hate those operator errors, accidental overwrites, and especially configuration oversights in routine backup processes...

 

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