Guest Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasimiAsl Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 i can make a perfect app for read html same as robot and split that like db the main q is time just need a permission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Yeah! A robot... reads post after post after post, gathering the html, page after page... all day sucker. We keep squirting it with WD-40 until... after 90 days of 24/7 "gleaning"... it finishes, and promptly falls to pieces from robot fatigue. heh. "Mister Glean, Mister Glean... sucks your databases clean... by Mennon". errr... no, I got my brands confused. Wingnut checks Naz's "hunter-gatherer" license and it is valid and up-to-date, with proper certifications. hmm. Ok, that's an option. Throw a ton of money and hugging at Naz, and ask him to build his post-reading robot, if he (ever) has time. We really don't need any permissions, right? We just need to act like a user... who reads every post... one after another... for 3 months. Sort of like a "denial of service" attack engine. Thanks for the offer-idea, @NasimiAsl. Interesting and nice-of-ya! I say... name it... The P. I. G. G. G. ... programmable intelligent grunting gulping gatherer. Pigs "forage", and "nudge" and "root", and will eat anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 19 hours ago, jerome said: That's very kind of you. But I think we have to think about a way to download everything. Fortunately (and because we decided early to migrate) there"s no hurry for now, we can think, study, test some ways to get the archive. We don't have access to the DB, it's a fact. But it's not a new one, it's something that we've ever been facing to. We were depending on another community's tool and on a service that doesn't allow to get the data back. It's a long time known issue. We can, from now, start to think how to get everything back whatever the way. No need for hurry. No-one has ever, ever, asked me for a copy of the forum database. So this is most certainly not a 'long time known issue'. You can have a copy of the MySQL db if you like. I just can't (and won't) include the users table, so it's useless for migrating to another host, but fine for extracting posts from. NasimiAsl and jerome 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasimiAsl Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 hi @rich i never had chance to talk with you but any data you can convert for us that help our community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad72 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 10 minutes ago, rich said: I just can't (and won't) include the users table Yes it is obvious, just the posts of this forum would be a good thing already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 @NasimiAsl it would be awesome if we can get the backup from Rich and reinject the data into a new read-only category I can create in the new forum (like archive) or on some website (not sure I want them in the new forum as they will not be related to any user and not flagged as answered) So if you can do that please do:) Dad72 and Vousk-prod. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Rich will send me the DB backup:) Sebavan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Waaaooowww thank you so much @rich I just thought it wasn't simply possible to get the DB dump and I didn't dare to disturb you for this... there are so many users in this forum, I imagine that you can't answer everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vousk-prod. Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Good news! Thanks @rich Injecting all that old posts in a ready-only archive section of the new forum will be the perfect solution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 I dumped the db today and it appears Invision puts the IP address of the poster in nearly every table This isn't information I can release, so I'm going to have to tidy this all up before sending it. The db dump is over 600MB, excluding logs. Also, be aware it doesn't include file attachments. Not that you'd be able to upload them to Discourse anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vousk-prod. Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 600 MB !! without the attachments ? We talked so much ?!! Or maybe there are the pictures in the export ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 No pictures, that's pure data. That's for the whole forum, not just the BJS section of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vousk-prod. Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Aaaah, ok, makes more sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasimiAsl Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 if that hurt the site privacy i can get all data i need from here without data and just babylon users (just username ) that can possible to if @rich can make a simple link for password recreation (like babylonjs new forum password recreation ) we can touch the current user by accept them by themself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasimiAsl Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 and about files we reference them from your host ( i think we can talk about some payment about that too ) or i can find all links by any user used in post and reply and transfare them too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 It's fine, I just need to check all tables for an IP address column and blank them if they have them, plus erase the users table (you still have the usernames of those who made the posts in the actual posts table). Then you can do whatever you want with the actual data. I can provide a dump of attachments too, but only once, as it's time-consuming. So let me know when you want me to do that. It will be up to you to consolidate these files with the attachment IDs in the database. I'm not sure how much space you get with Discourse, I think it's 1TB, before Deltakosh will have to start paying monthly to be hosted there. Just to clarify - forum updates are paid for until April 2019, after which it will still work, but Invision won't be updated any longer. Without BJS or Phaser here traffic will be really small, so I can move it to a cheap VPS and keep it online indefinitely (or until some massive Invision security flaw comes out!) Wingnut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Yep this is why I'm not sure we should spend too much energy on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 I'll provide a zip of all attachments when you request it, you can decide if you want to do anything with them or not after that. Vousk-prod., NasimiAsl and jerome 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Ok thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NasimiAsl Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 @rich hi we need that content file as zip if you have any link i can download that i know that is hard to do our request but we need them wish you help us thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Thanks for your work, here, guys. Personally, I have lots of text in the old forum... perhaps more than any other user. My primary concern is to have that text remain searchable, forever, somehow. AND, I'm still reading all the text/posts made by others, and depend upon those, heavily (to look smarter than I really am). Anything that can be done... thank you, thank you, thank you! (hug) Also, thanks to those who are spending $$$ on temporarily keeping things alive. Very nice of ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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