I've seen it happen, quite a lot.

More like sponsors than owners.

Dude, thats lame....Owners should be like...the MAIN game designers! THEY want the project to succeed, after all?

Servers will still receive backups due to hardware failures or server crashes. They just need to put in a support ticket like normal.

If the server is no longer being used and won't be returning. You could use your tileset elsewhere if you designed it. You would just have to have saved a backup of the tileset yourself.

And what happens if the owner has a backup of this tileset too and decides to use the tileset on one of his other projects? A project in which I don't work.

In an ideal world you would both ask each other if the other person cared if each used it but this is graal so chances are that won't happen. My best guess at this point will be that whoever of you uses it first will get the useage rights to it.

Never really understood passive owners / sponsors.

If there was a way to get your money back, ok... but surely everyone doing it is either (a) just kind - which is fine (b) wanting to come back and abuse the position once finished, public and popular.

Concerned that some may be there for B.

I don't see why this is suppose to be a "good" thing. This only states that Stefan simply dosn't have the time to deal with us normal players.

Trust me been there done that...

This means, NO server what so ever will be able to make a comeback. And if a server is hacked, or somehow staff violated, you'll not be able to recover data. So someone tell me how this is suppose to be a good thing...

I'm sorry I just don't see it.

Wrong, it just means that Jigga wont be allowed to make an revival.
The OWNER should approve of the revival!

Yes but in most cases the OWNER has left graal. And this means if the Owner leaves graal, NO ONE CAN REVIVE IT. Except if the Owner comes back to graalonline.

And if I got it right, I'm not even sure that the Owner will be able to revive data. "NO DATA WILL BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC".
This mean the Owner as public aswell. Anyone working outside graal, except global and people
incharge of graalonline of course.

If I got it right, Stefan just don't have the time to look for data. Because it takes alot of time and effort.

This dosn't mean people like Jigga won't be able to recover.
It means people like you and me who own servers won't be able to recover data if our servers are hacked or staff-violated.

I'm gonna follow one single rule from now on. Don't trust anyone, because if you lose your stuff.. G'd luck trying to revive it, trust me I tried reviving stuff for Providence, the support took 2 weeks just to answer. Another week for Stefan to watch the ticket. And after that I waited 3 weeks for Stefan to come help. And if not Jigga himself, helped me finding a long hacked script backup. That he himself hacked or somehow got the hand off. I would've withdrawn my attempt to revive this server.

Get your facts right.

Get your facts right. They said if it crashed or was hacked they would give a backup. As an owner, its your responsibility to back up your server, not GraalOnlines.

I backup myserver. My recent post was about retreving some data from a old backup back in 2002. This won't be possible anymore. And yes, I just saw that I missed that. Server faliure and a hacked server will give you the oppertunity to recover data. That's all I need to know.

5 year old backups don't even have scripts that work properly with the new engine so wouldn't it be more trouble than its worth in the long run to revive it?

I personally don't quite understand why if a developer of a server didn't want to bother saving a backup that long. Why should they expect Graal to save them in pristine condition. If I remember correctly, servers weren't even backed up as often as they are now.

Again though, just to repeat for those that like to skip through these threads.
If you have a server online and for whatever reason some disaster strikes. You can still request a backup or rollback to repair it. The time it takes to do it should, in theory, be reduced as there won't be dozens of other requests waiting in line before you.

If you however wish to get it restored instantly, I suggest each server make backups of their own.

On Vesporia, I don't make regular backups; I'm not sure if Jave does that, but in any case, it's just me, Drake, and Jave, so I'm not too worried about anything.

On Utopia, I made daily backups. I have over 60 different backups of Utopia.

My scheme is that I backup every day; if for some reason I don't get on, no problem. I backup weapons, classes, and npcs.

On fridays and sundays (right before the big rush of development for the weekend and right after), I make a FULL backup. I organize everything like it is in the file manager. All of those full ones together are over 200 MB z.z

Graal has never guaranteed data integrity, so everybody should be keeping their own backups.

However, if a server crashes, or a staff member deletes everything, or the economy is ruined by bugs, etc, we will be happy to assist in any way we can to get your world back to a stable condition.

The big difference is we will not give out data for servers that are no longer online. If you want to revive a project, that is fine, but you need to find the data yourself - we won't give it to you.

So to summarize:
1) We will definitely still help with backups if anything happens to your server

2) To revive an old project you need to have the files or get them from somebody who has them - we won't give you backups of servers.