SL Forum Recovery Update

[Agathon]

We need a special "sigh" smiley for Ming. He's been doing a lot of it lately.

[alva]

Comes with age.

* sigh *

[techumseh]

Can we have a progress report, please?

[MarkG]

i've succesfully separated from the backups the data for 17k of posts along with the related thread and attachment info. now i'll need to do a script to take a copy of only the needed attachments from the attachments backup and then i'll just need to instert the data and copy the files....

[techumseh]

Oh, is that all?

[St Leo]

Thanks, Markos. Sounds tremendous. You rock.

[St Leo]

So, what's the plan?

[DrSpike]

Plan part 1: Ask Leo to do all of the above.

[CapTVK]

So, where do we stand concerning the backups? It isn't bothering me that much (yet) but it would be helpful if we could access some of the old SL threads.

[techumseh]

May we have an ETA for the restoration? Is it still being actively pursued?

[Exile]

I don't care about the post count. Titles are cute, but not really useful.

What I DO care about are a number of the threads, especially the graphics threads. There were a lot of graphics in those threads by a host of talented artists. I copied from those threads regularly.

Then, computer problems of my own.

When I resurface, the discovery of problems here at acs too.

Tragic piece of bad luck/coincidence. Dammit.

If my input here is valued, the suggestion is to get at those threads in particular, if possible. They held much of the resources of our community.

[Cyrion]

Fully agree with Exile: I can survive without the postcount, but I badly need the material that was in the lost thread!

Any news on the situation?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Plan part 1: Ask Leo to do all of the above.

Part 2: ???

Part 3: Profit!

[DrSpike]

How very sad that I know immediately where that came from.

[our_man]

Any chance of a progress report?