terminator101 |
January 10th, 18 07:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Wolfie
(Post 2870530)
will we neeed new acounts?
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Originally Posted by soulcaliber345
(Post 2871159)
What will happen to our accounts and created threads?
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Ai said:
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Originally Posted by Ai
(Post 2867237)
... - Full fresh backups will be taken once all sites are turned off
- These new fresh backups will be moved off of the server
- All data from the fresh backups will be restored to the server
- All sites will be redirected back to this server and reopened as soon as their data is restored.
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Supposedly, all of our accounts and threads will remain the same after the required maintenance is completed. If you're concerned that something might go wrong before the restore operation (e.g. The external hard drive that will hold all of the backups gets accidentally dropped on the floor and subsequently cannot be read [Bad CRC errors] in certain areas due to some damaged sectors on the disc platters [That's happened to me once with one of my external hard drives but fortunately, I had another identical backup drive so all I really lost was a 100% working external hard drive, the money I had to spend to buy a replacement external hard drive and the time I had to spend to ghost all the data from my remaining 100% working hard drive into the new one]) then you should go to the threads that you want to preserve, copy and paste all of the text in the latest post(s) made by you into a text file(s) created in Notepad and then save the text file(s). After the site is running again, if you notice that something is missing from any given thread of yours then you can at least re-post the text (Saved in the text file) from your last post into the thread (This is assuming that the thread was restored only partially from the DB. IMHO, it would be highly unlikely that an entire thread would be missing after the restore operation). Also, unless something happens to the user table in the DB, there should be no need to create a new account.
:cool:
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