OSGRID entered the emergency long -term maintenance after finding out that all IAR files were damaged yesterday.
This is actually bad news for the residents who didn’t have time to download the inventory backup before the database reset on March 21, which was previously announced. OSGRID now moves to immediate and indefinite obstruction.
The OSGRID team said in a presentation, “Unfortunately, the current situation has become impossible. “After careful analysis, it is clear that maintaining OSGRID online under these conditions is no longer practical.”
IAR’s corruption -stock archive -file is important because many residents use this file to back up inventory before planned asset wives. Alternative methods can now face permanent losses for users who have not yet protected content.
Complete the planned reconstruction
In light of the new problems, the administrator of the grid decided to rebuild the asset system from the beginning.
Assets can include objects, clothing, texture and other items that grid residents store in avatar inventory. Some assets may have been purchased in the OpenSim Content Creator and can indicate financial investment. Other assets may have been created from the beginning by users who represent time, effort and creativity. As a result, some residents can be hit by losses.
The announcement said, “We decided to completely rebuild our assets in a new format to solve the ongoing problems and provide much more powerful and sustainable infrastructure.
Unlike the previous timeline, which promised profits on March 28, the team describes the “long, meticulous” reconstruction as “long and meticulous” without any specific date.
The OSGRID team said, “We want to spend the time we need to ensure that the results are stable and functional and most important.
Impact on opensim
This sudden closure accelerates the timeline of OSGRID users who plan to back up the content. Users who create OAR (OpenSIM Archive Files) in the area or send items to other grid avatars can no longer access the content.
The situation especially affects the user.
- I booked a backup in the next few days or weeks
- I was relying on the grid IAR export tool.
- Items have been placed in a dedicated storage area.
For a wider opensim ecosystem, this emergency closure can increase the migration pressure of other grids that have prepared a gradual inflow of a moving user.
KITELY CEO Ilan Tochner also warns that when other grids are popularized, they may have similar data problems and may have to visit the backup policy again.
“You need to keep the daily backup of the entire system so that you can restore it to the last stable state.” Hyper Grid Business. “If you rely only on data replication without doing this work, you will not be able to restore the corrupt copy of the file if a corruption occurs.”
KITELY says that all systems can run every day backup and request the owner of the KITELY to restore the area from the backup for any reason. This allows people to restore the accident without having to manually back up the region with an OAR file.
Tochner said, “If you are an OSGRID user who has lost home, it’s a good idea to consider the data backup policy of the grid you decided to move. “The more likely people use the grid, the more likely they need to use the backup system.”
KITLY, the third largest grid in the land area, serves as a major content market for OpenSim.
The KITELY market currently has a list of 20,954 products that contain 41,054 product modifications, and 35,814 of them can be exported to other grids. KITELY MARKET users can automatically deliver purchases to the avatar of another grid. KITELY MARKET has provided orders to 642’s OpenSIM grid, Tochner said.
KITELY MARKET also provides a tool to help the merchant to restore the items purchased for the avatar in stock or a grid that suffers, he said.
Volunteer support
The OSGRID was entirely run by volunteers, and the management requested the understanding of the community in this difficulty. “It is important to remember that OSGRID is operated by volunteers and is all passionate and devoted to the platform. But our team should keep in mind that it is composed of real people, parents and experts who are living beyond their roles in OSGRID. ”
The team promised to provide a regular update for the progress, but did not know how frequently this update occurred or what channels they showed.
History of OSGRID’s Challenge
This is not the first main interruption of OSGRID. In 2014 and 2015, Grid experienced a lasting power outage for several months, and a significant amount of user data has been lost.
The current situation looks potentially more serious because the grid is completely reconstructed in the asset system instead of trying to repair the existing infrastructure.
Founded in 2007, OSGRID has served as a social hub and technical test civil engineering for developing OpenSIM. The largest hyper grid -supported virtual world, the OPensim ecosystem will be felt throughout.
For users who are affected by this closure, other OpenSIM grids, including Wolf Territories, Kitely, and Alternate Metaverse, have previously helped to accommodate displaced residents.
