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Date Posted: 03:07:34 07/02/00 Sun
Author: JM
Subject: Re: Archives (thanks Brandon)
In reply to: Brandon 's message, "Archives" on 19:40:08 07/01/00 Sat

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't got time right now to go check the stuff out but will later. Will keep you posted if I get any 'bugs' etc!

Noted re the archiving saving! Thanks again.

Rgrds,
JM

> I manually tried to merge your old messages with the
> recent ones posted to your forum. Unfortunately, even
> trying to raw-dump the old messages fails because the
> old third-party database routines fail. There is no
> way to retrieve them from the corrupt database -- any
> program that tries will crash miserably. You probably
> saw some of the old merged messages that I did salvage
> for you.
>
> Now, regarding backing up. Indeed, almost any site
> you go to will give no guarantee against loss of data
> for any of a variety of reasons; hardware failures,
> bugs, power outages, etc. We do provide an
> easy way for Forum Owners to download a copy of
> their messages, though -- simply switch your forum to
> Verbose display, view your forum and save that to your
> local machine.
>
> > minute or two to work and half an hour later it says
> > the same thing and the same goes for On failure of
> > the above, restore from backup
>
> Right. Just wait a minute or two and go view your
> forum. This has been tested -- it should never be
> possible to hang. I tested it on your forum and it
> works fine. Your forum database is clean. The only
> problem, it seems, is that you're missing the old
> messages which were unable to be recovered through the
> transition, nor my manual attempts.
>
> Web pages, once loaded, just sit there, remember. The
> "On failure, restore from backup" one just copies a
> backup file back in place -- it takes only a second --
> no need to wait a half hour.
>
> The new database system doesn't seem to have the
> memory bug(s) the old one did, so that shouldn't be a
> problem. We do realize, however, that no software is
> necessarily flawless. That, along with the
> possibility of hardware failures, etc, means you may
> want to keep a more frequent copy of your important
> messages.
>
> Take care.
>
> Sincerely,
> Brandon
> VoyForums Staff

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