Good News and Bad News concerning the missing posts

[CanadienneBacon]

Thanks for the reply and thanks, too, for reminding me that threads are actually numbered with a topic number.

Good luck with things and a third thanks for helping out restoring the db and for being willing to disseminate information to the membership.

 

[kirinke]

I dunno. We have the forums back up thanks to Spoony and Twin Rose. Sure, we've lost a few months of posts, but Google has them in cach, so we can reference them if needs be and grab them from there. Isn't there a chance that something could drastically go wrong with this experiment?

Like the man says, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Just sayin....

From now on, Enworld can do a monthly backup or whatever you guys do to the database to keep it on file. (My programming skills are pretty weak, so I don't know what that entails.) I say, just chalk this up to experience and make sure it doesn't happen again.

 

[resistor]

Google has them in cach, so we can reference them if needs be and grab them from there.

That won't last. Sooner, rather than later, Google's webcrawlers will notice that the pages have changed and will replace the caches with what's there now. The caches are only temporary.

 

[Bront]

Threads go by their unique thread id - the name of the thread is largely irrelevant to the computer. Same for posts and (for that matter) forums.

That may result in some dupes, but we can deal with that

 

[Steve Jung]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic forum. ENWorld will be that forum. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

This sounds promising, Spoony. Thanks for trying ti out.

 

[Erekose13]

Spoony, are you planning to run through these transactions on a local/offline copy of the db, then replace this one at a later point?

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Sorry I can't help, but I'm an Oracle guy, not a MySql guy.

Good luck!

 

[Michael Morris]

Spoony, are you planning to run through these transactions on a local/offline copy of the db, then replace this one at a later point?

Basically yes. Doing it on this server will tie up all it's resources.

 

[kirinke]

That won't last. Sooner, rather than later, Google's webcrawlers will notice that the pages have changed and will replace the caches with what's there now. The caches are only temporary.

Like I said, I can use a computer, I can even build a computer. But program it? Naa...
Anyway, G'luck. I have no idea what mojo ya'll are going to do.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic forum. ENWorld will be that forum. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.

This sounds promising, Spoony. Thanks for trying ti out.

You just wrecked his chances by quoting an aohell commercial!



Seriously, hopefully, this will work! :crosses fingers: :sacrifices rubber chicken: