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Re: archives
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2024 10:32 pm
by Dark6
PREZ wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:48 am
I think there is probably a way to find the old stuff,but i never did any of this. T-woo was the man.
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2561781
Re: archives
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 9:05 am
by ohioyj
I'll dig into this a little more this evening and see what I find. I know when I set this up and was looking for ideas for categories I used the wayback machine and it had some posts but not the complete site. Which may be the issue.
Re: archives
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 10:52 am
by Dark6
ohioyj wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 9:05 am
I'll dig into this a little more this evening and see what I find. I know when I set this up and was looking for ideas for categories I used the wayback machine and it had some posts but not the complete site. Which may be the issue.
They mention WGET as a tool for recovery. Surely someone backed up something at some time... I am happy to lend any hand in trying.
Re: archives
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:07 pm
by ohioyj
Dark6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 10:52 am
They mention WGET as a tool for recovery. Surely someone backed up something at some time... I am happy to lend any hand in trying.
From what I've seen and understand of this all this requires / relies on the Wayback machine or something similar having a mostly complete archive of the forum. From what I've seen it does not appear they have much more than then the main page. (Im not to optimistic on that one, based on what I've seen available from the Wayback machine unfortunately)
I know I create backups of the current forum routinely now and download them just in case. Hopefully so we aren't stuck in a situation like this again.
Re: archives
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:29 pm
by Dark6
ohioyj wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 12:07 pm
Dark6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 10:52 am
They mention WGET as a tool for recovery. Surely someone backed up something at some time... I am happy to lend any hand in trying.
From what I've seen and understand of this all this requires / relies on the Wayback machine or something similar having a mostly complete archive of the forum. From what I've seen it does not appear they have much more than then the main page. (Im not to optimistic on that one, based on what I've seen available from the Wayback machine unfortunately)
I know I create backups of the current forum routinely now and download them just in case. Hopefully so we aren't stuck in a situation like this again.
Man that really stinks. hard to believe that we never saved any data. I don't think any of us really knew how big it all got