Nectarine Revival Project

Restoring the HD! Thanks!!!

Yes — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:08:00 +0100

Some of you asked for a chipin' applet so they could donate some money.

http://nectarine.chipin.com/nectarine-support

Within 3 days only, I have collected enough money to pay for a FULL disk-restoring. Thanks for all your help!

You proved once again that Nectarine is a family which is stronger than I could possibly imagine. The Paypal account is still working if you want to .

Please take a look at the DONORS LIST.

HD NEWS

Yes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:45:00 +0200

First i noticed that some of you are donating again. Thanks but please stop :) Keep your donation for other demoscene resources such as AMP !!!! :)

there is some new information about disk restoring

The mp3 disk is clean and perfect, all mp3 were tested ok! So that is GREAT news :) The SQL disk is .. really broken. They are trying to move magnetic parts to another system in a white room to retrieve all data.

I will have more news at the end of the week.

Stay tuned.

Bye bye HD

Yes — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:49:00 +0200

With your help, the HDs will be sent to the doctor using a private transporter tomorrow :) I'm crossing my fingers like hell.

I'm hoping to have an answer about recovery chances at the beginning of the next week.

By the way, the Nectarine Revival is in Progress.

Peach has been selected to think about a new 'clear and clean' web interface. For now 2 coders have been selected to work on the new engine.

I contacted Scamp about his hosting offer and some facebook friends offered their help too.

We need more coders PHP/AJAX, maybe specialized ones. Feel free to sign up :)

Christophe aka Yes of Brainstorm

Last estimate

Yes — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:45:00 +0200

Here is the last estimate

Between 290 and 390 euros per disk from recovea.com (and 64 euros per disk to send them)

This company is ALMOST near Lyon (100 km), so maybe it's less expensive to take my car.

Second estimate price

Yes — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:58:00 +0200

Here is the second estimate of the price coming from a big professional company.

To send 2 HD to the company : 32 € x 2
Partition n°2 of DISK#1 with 100 % files testing : 400 €
Partition n°2 of DISK#2 with 100 % files testing : 400 €
Price to send 2 HD to me again : 32 € x 2

3 weeks delay.

So ... (exchange rate changed)

64+400+400+64 = 928 euros 7 % of Paypal taxes when you donate = 64,96 euros

So we need (928+64,96) * (1 / 0,645) = 1539 $ exactly

I'm waiting for the last estimate (the next one will be the last as they have the 2 disks on place).

Looking for SERVER & HOSTING

Yes — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:49:00 +0200

I have some contacts about powerful unix hosting but for the streaming source engine (playlist rotation, dabatase, jingles etc ..) i need a Win32 server.

More power = More dedicated & differents streams

I know the requirements are high. Here in France i could have the first for 50 € / months (KIMSUFFI) and the second one for 65 € months (SUPER PLAN)

Could you find cheaper offers?

MINIMUM Requirement

Pentium IV 3GHZ
1 GB RAM
250 GB HD
LAN : 25 mbs up/down
Illimited Trafic
Windows 2003 server
TSE access
1 Fixed IP

MAX requirement

Intel Core Duo > 2ghz per core
2 GB Ram
500 GB HB
LAN : 100 mbs up/down
Illimited Trafic
Windows 2003 server
TSE access
1 Fixed IP

Why not undeleting?

Yes — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:17:00 +0200

I received several mails about why not using an undelete software to recover files on the server HD.

First, i don't want to play with data collected by others over the course of 8,5 years. I tried several software packages before and they didn't recover everything very well (especially the mp3 files). Fixing 10 files is ok, but more than 20000 ... i don't wanna try!

Then, as i already explained, my HOME HD crashed (the one with the july .sql file) and it doesn't work at all (it's not only an undeleted).

I'm sure that you will understand that I don't want to play with the Nectarine Server data and that I need to give it to professionnals. I admit, it's expensive. I know, and I want to thank everyone who contributes to the Chipin donation, and I'm sure it's the best way to recover everything.

I hope you understand...

Looking for F.O.N.P.

Yes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:16:00 +0200

SKILL / TALENTS

The TEAM (you need to be motivated By FULL OPEN NECTARINE PROJECT !!!)

At least 2 coders with PHP skills and secure coding
At least 1 Mysql administrator with skills on optimizing and security.

1 coder with Win32/MacOSX/Mobile phone skill (to code applet / iphone access etc ...)
1 Streaming / Compression format coder (linux coding capable)
1 security expert to check all creation / modification

1 hardware platform with 2 server (1 for streaming, 1 for web & mysql) or a big one for everything. 100 mb/s up / down is the best Hosting capabilities (as electrical reboot, backup solution etc ..)

Thanks to all of you

Yes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:58:00 +0200

I would thanks all donors who want to help me.

A donor pages has been added on the left and i will add each name !

You are the Nectarine heart AGAIN !

First Estimate of the Price

Yes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:51:00 +0200

First i need to check 2 hd.

The server one (250 GB) could not contains the mysql datas as they were in a idata mysql file and this file contains some other websites datas i hosted. So the file moved after the database deletion. But we can restore the 64 Gb of mp3 as i saw it with some utilities. But i prefer to ask a company to restore everything. That the biggest part of Nectarine and it will be a shame to lose everything just coz i wanted to use a freeware software ...

The second HD is mine, which crashed last week end. I bought a new one so i don't need money for it ;) I just need money to restore the MYSQL .SQL files on it (Two backup from august and july).

Here is the estimate of the price.

To send 2 HD to the company : 32 € x 2

Restoring the full mp3 directory from DISK#1 : 5 € / GB (320 €)
Restoring 2 .sql files from DISK#2 : 200 €

Testing 25 % of files randomly : Offer
Testing the whole two .sql files : Offer

Price to send 2 HD to me again : 32 € x 2

So ...

64+320+200+64 = 648 euros 7 % of Paypal taxes when you donate = 45,38 euros

As Chipin is in $, the exchange rate for paypal right now is

1$ = 0,688 €

So we need (648+45,38) * (1 / 0,688) = 1007 $ exactly

I'm waiting for the 2nd and the 3rd Estimate at the beginning of next week.

Another Article by the Old computer.com

Yes — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0200

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/blog/retroblog.html

I don't know if he remember that i did an alambik 3d intro for him some years ago...

Article about Nectarine attack

Yes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:51:00 +0200

Openbytes wrote an Article about Nectarine's death. Read it !

First step restoring

Yes — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:46:00 +0200

The server HD is at home !

Nectarine community

Yes — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:41:00 +0200

The Nectarine Community decided to launch a temporary stream at http://www.scenemusic.pl

Arab, one of my old admin is hosting the project.

RIP Nectarine

Yes — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:35:00 +0200

Using a security hole in a multipage class used in Nectarine, a script Kiddie deleted the whole Nectarine database.

In less than one hour, 8 years of work were deleted including php sources, Streaming applications, Music directories (64 GB) and of course, the Mysql DB.

The attack was strong.

Even if the DB account stolen using the security hole had no drop/truncate rights. the Mysql DB was deleted. All Debian logs were deleted at the same time. The Debian root password was changed. The music directory was deleted.