# Lost forum activity from past year **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [April 15, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897 "2024-04-15T16:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/1 "2024-04-15T16:10:51Z")
Unfortunately old server VM got deleted and all data, including automatic backups where lost. All users, posts and forum activity from last year got deleted. I am very sorry for this, it is a big problem. I did what I could to get back as much data as possible. Unfortunately most recent local backup I had stored on my PC was from beginning of last year and I restored from there. It is possible not everything is back to the old configuration. It was long time ago I initially setup this forum, over 5 years ago and I forgot all the details. If there is anything that you noticed missing that we could get back to normal, let me know, please, and I will try to get it back to it’s initial state. ---
**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/2 "2024-04-15T16:11:37Z")
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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/3 "2024-04-15T16:13:13Z")
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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/4 "2024-04-15T16:13:34Z")
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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/5 "2024-04-15T16:13:39Z")
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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/6 "2024-04-15T16:13:50Z")
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**Author:** ![suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/suddenwhipvapor/32/3291_2.png) [@suddenwhipvapor](https://bisq.community/u/suddenwhipvapor)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/7 "2024-04-15T17:01:48Z")
> [@alexej996](#): > > Unfortunately most recent local backup I had stored on my PC was from beginning of last year and I restored from there. free crash course on keeping backups encrypted on the cloud, and also on multiple different PCs 😉 On a side note, I lost all my stats 😢 ---
**Author:** ![cbeams](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/cbeams/32/3396_2.png) [@cbeams](https://bisq.community/u/cbeams)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/8 "2024-04-16T02:33:27Z")
Thanks for the update and for getting the server back up, @alexej996. Could you share what measures you have put in place or plan to put in place to avoid such downtime and data loss in the future? Note that [archive.org](http://archive.org) does have snapshots of the forum, with the most recent being from March 29th of this year (1). It’s hardly complete, and many (but not all) posts linked from the main page were not archived, but it may be of at least some value and consolation for folks (especially frequent posters) to know there is at least some public record of their recent activity. (1): [Bisq](https://web.archive.org/web/20240329033701/https://bisq.community/) ---
**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/9 "2024-04-16T16:55:13Z")
Yeah, losing the stats is also unfortunate ☹ I definitely will keep more backups and have set up more reminders and notifications for all the VPS I administer. This is a very hard way to learn a lesson. ---
**Author:** ![MnM](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/mnm/32/257_2.png) [@MnM](https://bisq.community/u/MnM)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/lost-forum-activity-from-past-year/11897/10 "2024-06-27T06:53:05Z")