Good News and Bad News concerning the missing posts

[Michael Morris]

Yes please. Email me.

 

[BOZ]

hey, if you can get it, then do it.

i don't even care if the posts look odd they way they did in the transition from the wizards ISRP, as long as they're back.

 

[jmucchiello]

But won't you lose everything that has happened since you brought the backup online?

 

[BOZ]

not if he does that thing he suggested before, where he leaves the active forums up, and these forums as a "read-only" where we can grab any posts we made in the last few days...

 

[Mark CMG]

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly - Macbeth (Act 1. Scene VII) by William Shakespeare.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Glee! I knew there must be write-ahead logs for recovery

 

[Nyaricus]

Spoony, thanks again for all the hard work. If I could help you man, I'd be right there beside you.

not if he does that thing he suggested before, where he leaves the active forums up, and these forums as a "read-only" where we can grab any posts we made in the last few days...

Would it be possible to move the recent posts (those made after the boards were officially back on after the crash) over to the new set of boards once this whole process (hopefully) goes through? That way, we could have all the new threads too.

Sorry, just thinking aloud here - I honestly have not idea how hard or simple this would be.

Just a thought. Thanks again SB

 

[Michael Morris]

No. What I will do is write a script that reposts all the posts in this database made from the start of this db's use forward into the new server. It won't be *easy*, but it can be done.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

If you write a script to repost all the posts in this database made from the start of this db's use forwarded into the new server, what will happen for those cases where old and new threads bear the same title?

To provide a concrete example, I had a thread before the crash entitled CB's City of the Spider Queen v3.5. The thread was the in-character thread for a play-by-post game that I DM. I waited a day or so after the crash to make sure that we were, in fact, sticking with the db from 29 Dec 05. Once I saw the thread in Meta announcing that the EN World admin wouldn't be able to retrieve lost data, and had scoped out EN World's homepage for the general announcement dated Thursday re: the same, I went ahead and created a new in-character thread for my City of the Spider Queen game. And, you guessed it--I gave it the exact same title as the old one.

What effect, if any, will duplicate threads have on thread restoration?

Thank you, kind sir, for taking time to answer questions. I do appreciate your effort and time.

 

[Michael Morris]

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.