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'''Short updates''' can be surprisingly devious in Hattrick. Normally these are supposed to be of a relatively little importance, serving to perform some simple maintenance tasks. The one on Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 however ended up with an unprecedented downtime of two and a half days, and a full system restore had to be made to the point right after the league matches were played. Unfortunately, for many managers this also meant losing friendly matches, and sometimes even losing the training altogether due to the lack of the lineup for the appropriate [[friendly]] and [[Cup|cup matches]], since many mid-week matches were played with a default [[line-up]]. The same applied to the [[national teams]], many of which had the match played with a default lineup and no team attitude/tactic settings. All [[transfers]] have also been cancelled, thus leading to teams being locked for failing to gather the required money before the deadline; fortunately, this has been amended by the HT-team who gave one additional week for such teams to collect the required finances.
'''Short update''' is a planned [[downtime]] in Hattrick, serving to perform some simple maintenance tasks. Normally this is supposed to be of little importance, but, unfortunately, it has sometimes proved how the use of the term "short" can be surprisingly misleading. In some case they can last days!


For the above reason of short updates the Hattrick managers are advised to plan in ahead as much as possible, including booking your friendly early and setting a valid lineup for the friendly/cup match right after it has been booked.
Beware when you read a short update announcement on the main Hattrick page! 


Beware when you see a short update announced on the main Hattrick page!
=== Examples ===
* The Short update on Wednesday 12th July 2006 ended up with an unprecedented downtime of two and a half days, and a full system restore had to be made to the point right after the league matches were played.


: On Tuesday 11th July 2006, during a storage upgrade, the master Hattrick database became corrupted. After limping along well into Wednesday, the Hattrick Team was forced to take the site down for more than two days to do recovery. When the damage proved too great to fix, [[Black Friday|for the second time in the history of the game]], the team was forced to restore from a backup.
: Fortunately, HT-team amended [[bankruptcy]] situations and teams were given one additional week to collect the required finances.
* On Monday 23rd August 2010, [[August 2010 crash|Hattrick was taken down]] during a short update for routine maintenance the system was forced to a full restore from back up due to a buggy firmware upgrade introduced by Hattrick's disk cabinet supplier.
==See Also==
*[[Downtime]]
*[[Uptime review]]
[[Category: History]]
[[Category:Evil]]
[[Category:Evil]]
[[Category: Bugs]]

Latest revision as of 12:49, 22 October 2020

Short update is a planned downtime in Hattrick, serving to perform some simple maintenance tasks. Normally this is supposed to be of little importance, but, unfortunately, it has sometimes proved how the use of the term "short" can be surprisingly misleading. In some case they can last days!

Beware when you read a short update announcement on the main Hattrick page!

Examples

  • The Short update on Wednesday 12th July 2006 ended up with an unprecedented downtime of two and a half days, and a full system restore had to be made to the point right after the league matches were played.
On Tuesday 11th July 2006, during a storage upgrade, the master Hattrick database became corrupted. After limping along well into Wednesday, the Hattrick Team was forced to take the site down for more than two days to do recovery. When the damage proved too great to fix, for the second time in the history of the game, the team was forced to restore from a backup.
Fortunately, HT-team amended bankruptcy situations and teams were given one additional week to collect the required finances.
  • On Monday 23rd August 2010, Hattrick was taken down during a short update for routine maintenance the system was forced to a full restore from back up due to a buggy firmware upgrade introduced by Hattrick's disk cabinet supplier.

See Also

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