BLOGS: Please Note

[Tallen]

Folks, I made a terrible blunder. When I was cross referencing the Blogs to the Wiki, some how I caused the blogs to stop working. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_25.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MNUS) When I tried to restore the blogs I accidently deleted them. Please forgive me. I don't know of any easy way to restore them from the backup, apparently vBulletin doesn't use conventional filing so I just can't find the data file and restore it.

So, can we start over on the Blogs? If not I will try to write to the software folks at vBulletin and see how I can go about the process, but I think if I do that we will lose the most recent posts in the forums.

Computers!!! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_13.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MNUS)

[TigerBunny]

Folks, I made a terrible blunder. When I was cross referencing the Blogs to the Wiki, some how I caused the blogs to stop working. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_25.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MNUS) When I tried to restore the blogs I accidently deleted them. Please forgive me. I don't know of any easy way to restore them from the backup, apparently vBulletin doesn't use conventional filing so I just can't find the data file and restore it.

So, can we start over on the Blogs? If not I will try to write to the software folks at vBulletin and see how I can go about the process, but I think if I do that we will lose the most recent posts in the forums.

Computers!!! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_13.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm824MNUS)

Ouchies!

Well...I don't mind all that much. I haven't been keeping up with mine. One way or another though you are going to want the answer to how to restore so you should prolly contact the board folks no matter which way this goes. No worries Ted.

Blessings

[TigerBunny]

One thing that does come to mind though...can you restore the site back to a date when the Blog's existed but before that save off all the changes after that and add the changes to the restore?

[Tallen]

One thing that does come to mind though...can you restore the site back to a date when the Blog's existed but before that save off all the changes after that and add the changes to the restore?

I didn't use the vBulletin software for the backup process since it doesn't restore site files. So I used the website software to backup the entire site, something I try to do regularly. When you backup the site like I did it just copies all of the files up to the point of where the backup happens. What a person has to do is backup the databases with the vB software and the whole site with the site software in order to get a complete bakcup. I should be doing both things. I didn't know that, because I thought the databases where stored in regular files on the site.

Not sure what all that means, but it boils down to this. I can either restore the site up to the point of the backup, and loose all the information after. Or I can loose the blogs and keep the other information after the backup.

It's like six of one and a 1/2 dozen of the other. :medium-smiley-010:

[TigerBunny]

I didn't use the vBulletin software for the backup process since it doesn't restore site files. So I used the website software to backup the entire site, something I try to do regularly. When you backup the site like I did it just copies all of the files up to the point of where the backup happens. What a person has to do is backup the databases with the vB software and the whole site with the site software in order to get a complete bakcup. I should be doing both things. I didn't know that, because I thought the databases where stored in regular files on the site.

Not sure what all that means, but it boils down to this. I can either restore the site up to the point of the backup, and loose all the information after. Or I can loose the blogs and keep the other information after the backup.

It's like six of one and a 1/2 dozen of the other. :medium-smiley-010:

Not quite. We can save off all the articles ( but not the work to get it up and running :crying: ) for the Wiki so they won't be lost. Then restore the site back to when the blog's were about. Then "repost" or copy back in the Wiki stuff.

Really the question is ( and it looks like from the responses ) how big a deal is it to loose all the stuff in the Blogs?

I feel for you Bro. Either way you slice it a lot of work for which I am grateful. I don't think I've thanked you lately for this site brother. God bless you Ted.