Posts by SWAT_OP-R8R

To prevent bans I had to disable some server functions. That will of course have some side effects.

Once a final solution is found, everything will be enabled again.

The server is online and open again.

The anticheat issue remains. Ill just unban everyone until a solution is found.

no, not related to the CF server

The update server runs separately. However, seems to be a new issue, that I just fixed.

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I don't even know what that is let alone use it. Please explain it to me. Sorry if im noob. I saw that there were problems with the hood, but it didn't bother me and I didn't want to report it.
Btw its not that big after almost 6000 files that i did yesterday Im joking

CFUIChanger is located in the Freelancer main folder.

You can simply run it to change between the different UI options without using the installer (same options).

The tool mainly exists for me to patch UI elements (bug fixes and improvements) via the launcher. This is more or less a workaround since the launcher is not able to recognize which installer options were used (an oversight when designing the installer back then).

Small update on the situation.

The server in theory is functional again. I am still testing stuff and try to get the automatic scripts running (maintenance, dynamic market, backups, etc).

I did a few structural changes and in theory optimized the daily maintenance, but in the end we will see if that works as intended tomorrow. The server will have a password until I am sure that everything worked fine.

IF so then its only trying to figure out why the anticheat is giving false warnings.

not what we need

its a rented server

Like stated by the server host. The raid failed in this case. Not much there to mount back.

However, I meanwhile reinstalled the OS and the drive with the CF data has been mounted via USB. Currently I am moving all that data to the new server environment and probably later this afternoon/evening I can try to get CF running again.

Well in the past 25 years I probably lost 5-6 server drives (mostly on webserver), two HDDs on my normal PC and maybe 10 USB drives.

That stuff is not meant to last. But probably the use cases are a bit more intense in my case.

again, no

Its not just the mbr. Drive C appears to be completely defect.

But Drive D was still working and there is the CF stuff. I personally prefer to seperate data and not put everything together on one drive. My own PC has 11 drives (4 NVME SSDs, 2 SATA SSDs, 3 internal HDDs and 2 external drives -> I need that )

No, multiple drives with raid1 configuration for each drive.

This is not for speed up something (it actually even slows it down a bit) but for security reasons, where drives are mirrored.

The system drive C: did die and the mirror for some reason failed. Drive D: as far I can tell is still there.

Drive D: is where all CF stuff is on, including the daily backups of chars (putting aside that for those I have also an external backup server with daily backups).

I told the hosting company to remove drive D from the system, replace it with a different one. Once done I can initiate a reinstall of the OS (without risk of overwriting anything). After that they should be able to connect that drive again via USB port so I can transfer the data to the new drive. (in theory)

IF that works I need to install a few tools, do a million settings and hope that the cf server software starts to run again.

IF so I probably need Huor to help me figure out why the server anticheat flooded the logs with errors, despite correct settings (in my eyes).

That's not the point.

Doing the config of the server in case of a data loss takes ages. There is half a million settings. I should have local backups from half a year ago. But still...

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We apogies for the late response, we are currently investigating the server as it appears that its webresetter is not working properly, as soon as we have more news we will let you know.

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After further investigation we have found out that it appears that the RAID array has somehow been broken and the server was running on a single drive in RAID 1, as we can see that the second drive is basic and only C: partition named tools is available, this means that unfortenetly all of the data stored on the main drive that failed is lost, the only solution we can offer you in this case is to remove the currently working drive named tools temporarily so that you can restore the server cleanly with new disks installed inside the server, after the Reinstall is done, we can then reconnect the old drive as USB and you can then transfer your data to the server.

Please let us know about your decision.

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Forgot to mention that our DC technician fixed the issue with the server's rebooting problems, now the server can be successfully rebooted and reinstalled from your side or even booted into Recovery mode.

Tricky situation, especially when you have to rely on writing tickets and misleading instructions to figure out whats going on.

The good news is that the drive with char backups and backups of the CF server installation still seems to be there. I am trying to figure out how to procede from there without losing data.

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Our data center technician found one of the drive as faulty and they replaced it. Currently server can’t boot as booting partition is missing.

Please boot the server in rescue/recovery mode and add bootable partition and do the raid sync.

This is going to take a bit.

Already contacted the server host.

But... yeah its Easter. I doubt that a fast solution can be found.

The update just got released.

As you might see on the launcher, it's a bigger one.

I did not manage to get everything I wanted to change into the update, therefore... another update in May.

One thing worth to mention. If you use the modern CF hud (the golden one), you probably should use the new CFUIChanger tool.

Just select the same option again. This will fix a bunch of under the hood issues with this specific UI choice and also will enable the autohide maneuver bar option for this specific HUD.

the question remains if it is still a connection issue between the server and your router

happy easter

At a later point yes, atm it's not planned to release a new installer version (even there are plenty of benefits).

Next installer version is being released when (If I ever manage to get it done) "black star fleet" update gets released.