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| daj95376
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| Pat wrote: | we're contemplating an automated mechanism (both for taking a snapshot and for loading it into some new home) -- a vast undertaking (software development) but with the advantage that it will copy 77,000 posts just as easily as 22,000.
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And this automated mechanism will copy all of the embedded features as well 
HTML BBcode Smilies
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and your favorite:
list entry 1
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| Pat
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:56 am Post subject: |
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daj95376, it depends on the new home --- my initial thought was to post an archive version,
which means just posting the HTML pretty much as it is
(it already handles b, code, quote, etc etc)
- but then the idea arose of posting it all in a new phpBB forum --
for that, we would indeed have to transform HTML back into BBcode,
which is exactly why i called it a vast undertaking
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| Pat
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| JasonLion wrote: | | Copying the entire content of the existing forum is a copyright violation, unless you have explicit permission of the person/company running the old forum. The individual posts belong to their authors, but the entire collection, as a collection, belongs to the current forum owner. |
thanks, JasonLion! i wouldn't know about copyright -- i suspect you're right and we'd have a serious problem here--- |
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| tarek
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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My personal view on this is not to run a prallel forum but to keep a (copy/snapshot/archive) of that forum stored somewhere else for future use if that moment comes.
The method can be as easy as follows:
1. Create bot (Personal time consuming part)
2. Bot gets registered with forum
3. Bot logs in
4. Initial sweep copies the whole forum posts (Machine time consuming part) [Either the dispalyed text alno or with the Embedded code through quoting each post]
5. Bot Logs out
6. Bot logs in at repeated intervals, updating what it already has by accessing "Posts since last visit"
7. Bot stays quiet & tells nobody about what it's up to 
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| Pat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| tarek wrote: | | My personal view on this is not to run a prallel forum but to keep a (copy/snapshot/archive) of that forum stored somewhere else for future use if that moment comes. |
excellent idea, keeping a backup this way.we should save the HTML of all pages,
just like Google et al do.
warning:
New Posts Since Last Visit does not tell the full story,
as older posts are sometimes edited and those are not flagged as New. |
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| gsf
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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players forum
snapshot 2009-05-19
forums 17
topics 6,686
bytes 500,662,272
compressed 59,126,562
this was done to isolate all of the forum spam for termination |
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| Pat
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database |
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| tarek
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Same error as Pat encountered ....
09:56 AM Pacific time APR 7 2010
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| gsf
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| tarek wrote: | Same error as Pat encountered ....
09:56 AM Pacific time APR 7 2010
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I suspended the patterns game referee until this is resolved |
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| strmckr
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| Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| me 2 for days now... |
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| gsf
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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getting a different error response today
either things are getting worse or repairs are underway
if it ever does come back I'm taking a snapshot posthaste |
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| m_b_metcalf
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Could anyone reading this and having one or more submissions to the current Patterns Game available, please send them to me by PM? Or even just the pattern.
Many thanks,
Mike Metcalf |
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| gsf
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| Pat
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| gsf (Apr.11) wrote: | getting a different error response today
either things are getting worse or repairs are underway |
but today it's back to the same old trouble -- "Could not connect to the database" |
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| gsf
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Pat wrote: | | gsf (Apr.11) wrote: | getting a different error response today
either things are getting worse or repairs are underway |
but today it's back to the same old trouble -- "Could not connect to the database" |
so who was it that actually made contact with real networks the last time the forum went down? |
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