We’re happy to announce that data recovery is complete and we’re ready to move forward. Iwara.tv will be returning to service as soon as possible, but first – we need a break for the weekend.
What we recovered:
- Critical data: User data, video data and Wura balances
- Followers, playlists, comments, friends, and most everything else
- Likes data is recovered from 2023 forward. Older likes are not lost and will be recovered later.
What won’t be recovered:
- Image files and video thumbnails
Thumbnails will be regenerated later once we create the script needed to regenerate thumbs for previous uploads
Image post files are not expected to be recovered, but we may be able to get some of them back
Next steps:
- Setting up our test site with the recovered data to check everything
- Making development changes to prevent this from happening again
- Moving the primary website to our new hosting services
Later:
- New premium voucher codes for people who were affected by the downtime while having premium active. Exact details will be announced later.
- Additional changes will be announced when finalized.
Please continue to be patient with us. We believe data recovery had to take priority over bringing the website back online right away as a fresh start. That would have caused too much distress among our users, and created new issues if we tried to import critical user data back into the database later.
