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Message 1801306 - Posted: 7 Jul 2016, 16:31:26 UTC

Apologies to my wing persons, but I did something dumb & stupid which caused the corruption of my data directory, as a consequence, I had to clear the directory, reinstall BOINC, the beta-3 Lunatics, and reattach to SETI. As a result 485 tasks were dumped and are reported as abandoned. Restoration of the directory was not possible as it's not backed up during my daily backups. It's a shame the lost tasks are not being re-transmitted.


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Message 1801464 - Posted: 8 Jul 2016, 3:05:43 UTC - in response to Message 1801306.  

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Message 1801467 - Posted: 8 Jul 2016, 3:09:52 UTC

It's really not all that horrible.
The servers just re-send them.
They don't get lost.
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Message 1801552 - Posted: 8 Jul 2016, 14:29:45 UTC

It's not that they were not retransmitted, it's that the server marked them as being abandoned instead of sending them back to me. If the lost task flag had been set to on, I thought that I would have gotten them back.


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Message 1801597 - Posted: 8 Jul 2016, 17:56:44 UTC - in response to Message 1801552.  

Abandoned task are not that bad. As soon as you report back abandoend the server puts the task back in the task pool, and the task is then sendt out to a New user.
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