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Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: rollerpigeon
Date: February 16, 2012, 8:50 am
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Hello, I could really use your help. a few days ago, my counter
showed that I had over 10,000 posts on my discussion site, now,
I have just over 5,000. What happened to lose 5,000 posts?
Also, threads are missing as well. :o
www.rollerpigeon.com
Thanks!
Tony
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:02 am
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Do you have any moderators? Check your moderation log if you
have it enabled. Change your passwords on your account.
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: rollerpigeon
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:08 am
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I am the only moderator. Is there any way that system upgrades
or optimization procedures on creataforum's end could have
caused this?
Thanks
Tony
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:14 am
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--- Quote from: rollerpigeon link ---
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> I am the only moderator. Is there any way that system upgrades
or optimization procedures on creataforum's end could have
caused this?
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> Thanks
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> Tony
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No. Haven't done any changes in a while and there is no
automated task.
Only ways to delete posts in mass. Is if you delete a board. Or
under forum maintenance if you delete posts in x amount of days.
I would also try under forum maintenance to do a check for forum
errors.
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: rollerpigeon
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:22 am
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Checked for forum errors, there were none.
"...Or under forum maintenance if you delete posts in x amount
of days."
I do not believe this was the problem, however, anything is
possible. Since the files are kept on your system, is it
possible that you could retrieve these lost files?
PS: what settings would I choose if I always want every post and
thread, no matter how old?
Thanks
Tony
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:40 am
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No settings need to be changed as the system does not auto
delete posts/threads without user intervention
Possibly but would be extremely hard to recover. I have a backup
done every 30 days and would need to extract the files out of
giant zip file which has millions of record and then figure out
which ones are missing.
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: rollerpigeon
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:53 am
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Okay, good to know.
This really brings up an important issue: The need to be able to
make backups of each board or forum at a user level. Would you
agree that this is important?
Thanks
Tony
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: February 16, 2012, 10:59 am
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It is important. The one thing though backups are extremely
processor intensive and can slow down hosted boards. I might
build a schedule system to schedule backups at non peek times.
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: rollerpigeon
Date: February 16, 2012, 11:20 am
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I understand. However, you could make it a premium service and
charge for it on the user level or include it free for a paid
hosted account like you do on the other add-on services. This
way the processor time is not overloaded. Perhaps individual
backups could be scheduled for slow traffic times, etc...
Thanks!
Tony
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Re: Lost 5 Thousand Posts!?
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: February 16, 2012, 11:26 am
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Yeah that would be the general idea I would do. Just need the
time I run this site and many others,software, and a small
office.
Now if only I could add some more tech people to build
everything for me now that would be great.
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