Don't hold your breath, but...

[Bront]

If we are able to go to a newer backup then I'll find a way transfer the posts even if it's simply locking this december based board and leaving it open for 2 weeks alongside the newer board, allowing people to copy over what they want to copy.

That sounds like the best plan, locking it and letting people transfer.

 

[Conaill]

I'm just trying to gauge if I should dedicate some time to trying to rebuild my missing threads now or to wait and see.

I would strongly recommend you do *not* take the "wait and see" approach - at least when it comes to extracting old pages from search engine caches. Those cached pages aren't going to be around forever, especially once people start posting to the now-truncated threads. When the search engine notices those pages have changed, it'll happily toss out those old pages and cache the latest, truncated version.

If you wait to download your cached pages, there may not be anything left to download once you get around to it...

 

[Michael Morris]

I've recieved word from Chris that he was mistaken regarding there being a more current backup than the one we're using. Sorry to get everyone's hopes up, but looks like - short of Google caches - the last 5 months are gone for good.

 

[Nyaricus]

I've recieved word from Chris that he was mistaken regarding there being a more current backup than the one we're using. Sorry to get everyone's hopes up, but looks like - short of Google caches - the last 5 months are gone for good.

Crap. Oh well, internet caches and whatnot will have to do.

Thanks, everyone, for all you've done. It's peoepl like you that make EN World the amazing place it is

 

[glass]

Spoony, I didn't realize you were in Oak Ridge. That's my home town, though I moved away a long time ago. I noticed you have a University of Kentucky email suffix? If you ever commute to Lexington from Oak Ridge, I'd be happy to meet and buy you dinner somewhere as a way of saying thanks for all you've done to get the boards back up.

That's a great idea!

Spoony: I don't live anywhere near Oak Ridge or the University of Kentucky, but if by any chance you ever happen to be in or near Coventry, UK, I'll buy you a meal too if you like. I can highly recomend the Sonargaon Tandori, if you like Indian.


glass.

 

[Mark CMG]

(Thanks Michael!)

I've recieved word from Chris that he was mistaken regarding there being a more current backup than the one we're using. Sorry to get everyone's hopes up, but looks like - short of Google caches - the last 5 months are gone for good.

You might wish to change the title of this thread and make a general announcement. I am probably not the only one who is simply not posting until this is sorted out. (No sense re-posting my story hour, for instance, if it is just going to be lost if a more recent database is found and utilized.)

 

[Cheiromancer]

Yeah, this should be announced before the Google cache refreshes and those posts are lost forever.

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, thanks for trying!

 

[Alenda]

Yeah, this should be announced before the Google cache refreshes and those posts are lost forever.

Yeah, and unfortunately the "Internet Archive" (www.archive.org) does not accurately capture any part of ENWorld except the opening page, so that's no help.

 

[James Heard]

Yeah, and unfortunately the "Internet Archive" (www.archive.org) does not accurately capture any part of ENWorld except the opening page, so that's no help.

The powers that be might benefit from checking them out though, and seeing if they'd be interested in archive ENWorld in the future? http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php has instructions on how to contact the administrators to beg, I mean ask them to include pages...it's always possible that somewhere over there is a gamer and/or could be bribed/intimidated/assassinated and replaced with a friendly administrator.