We’ve successfully restored the thumbnail images for all of the videos in our database.  For most of them, we were able to utilize the original image.  For some, we had to rely on a more creative method of searching on the video title.  As such, you may see a few funky thumbnail images, but for the most part everything should look great.

It’s worth remembering: When your hard drive data structure gets corrupted, your backups will be corrupted as well.

We’re back up and running.  We had to re-format a drive and re-load our thumbnail images, some of which were lost.  As such, we’ll be updating the system with new thumbnails as we pull them from the hundreds of sources across the web that have videos listed at Gawkk.  As always, please feel free to use our “report” function to let us know if you see anything out of order with a video or channel.

Gawkk is down at the moment as we recover from a hard drive failure.  We’re in the process of swapping out the drive and getting the machine back up.  We run RAID on our boxes, but a corrupt file system has prevented us from simply mirroring a new disk.

Please stay tuned…