Short Update

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. In some case they can last days!

Unfortunately, for many managers this means losing friendly matches, and sometimes even losing the training altogether due to the lack of default match orders and appropriate line-up for matches. The same applied to the national teams, many of which had the match played with a default lineup and no team attitude or tactic settings.

All transfers are also cancelled, thus leading to teams being locked for failing to gather the required money before the deadline.

For the above reasons the users are advised of short updates 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.

Examples

• The Short update on Wednesday July 12th 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 11 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, August 23, 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.

Beware when you see a short update announced on the main Hattrick page!