Welcome back!
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 13:55 last edited by Klaus
I think I got it mostly to work.
The temporary forum is still available here.
http://nodebb-backup.the-new-coffee-room.clubYour old logins should still work on this forum.
What doesn't work:
- Profile pictures are gone (if you still see some they are probably just cached by your browser, so make sure you upload a new one)
- I assume all file uploads are gone
- Twitter embedding does not work
What should work:
- all users restored
- all posts restored
- all PMs restored
- layout of the forum restored
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 13:59 last edited by
It turns out that the whole bruhaha was caused by a file permission issue of a single offending plugin, namely our Twitter plugin.
The incompatibility between the latest forum version and this plugin is so deep that it completely destroys an installation, with no possibility of going back to an old version or anything.
So - no Twitter embedding for the moment. I'll think about a solution.
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:00 last edited by
About profile pictures and uploads - @Axtremus could you maybe manually scan a backup that is at least three days old whether it contains a
public/uploadsfolder or something? Maybe I can restore profiles etc.; I think I have only the backup of the database, but not of that folder (which is where profile images live). -
wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:06 last edited by
Nice going, Klaus - and thanks for all your work on this.
I think we should award you a 100% pay-raise!
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:06 last edited by
For the techies: It turns out that the information about installed plugins etc. is all part of the database, so what I had to do was to unpack the backup, transform it to readable text, find the part about the plugins, remove the information about the plugin from the database, package it back up, and manually feed that data into the database.
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:12 last edited by
Damn, I'm glad that I finally got it to work again. I couldn't let the prejudice that CS academics have no clue about how to operate computers in the real world win
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:13 last edited by
But I’m not finding the thread where I was voted the smartest, most talented, and best looking man on the forum…
Still, it’s nice to have 99%! Good job, Klaus!
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Nice going, Klaus - and thanks for all your work on this.
I think we should award you a 100% pay-raise!
wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:15 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Welcome back!:
Nice going, Klaus - and thanks for all your work on this.
I think we should award you a 100% pay-raise!
Make that 200%!
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:27 last edited by
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 14:51 last edited by
Thanks for all this, Klaus!
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 15:33 last edited by
Seriously, this was a lot of work and it's apprecaited.
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About profile pictures and uploads - @Axtremus could you maybe manually scan a backup that is at least three days old whether it contains a
public/uploadsfolder or something? Maybe I can restore profiles etc.; I think I have only the backup of the database, but not of that folder (which is where profile images live).wrote on 20 May 2022, 15:54 last edited by@Klaus said in Welcome back!:
About profile pictures and uploads - @Axtremus could you maybe manually scan a backup that is at least three days old whether it contains a
public/uploadsfolder or something? Maybe I can restore profiles etc.; I think I have only the backup of the database, but not of that folder (which is where profile images live).Never mind, @Axtremus - thanks to the AWS command line tools I was able to download the full backups now.
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 16:18 last edited by
Ha! Managed to restore the profile pics, too.
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@Klaus said in Welcome back!:
About profile pictures and uploads - @Axtremus could you maybe manually scan a backup that is at least three days old whether it contains a
public/uploadsfolder or something? Maybe I can restore profiles etc.; I think I have only the backup of the database, but not of that folder (which is where profile images live).Never mind, @Axtremus - thanks to the AWS command line tools I was able to download the full backups now.
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 17:24 last edited by
Excellent work getting the system back online. Thanks Klaus!
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 17:34 last edited by
Way to go, Klaus! Thank you.
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But I’m not finding the thread where I was voted the smartest, most talented, and best looking man on the forum…
Still, it’s nice to have 99%! Good job, Klaus!
wrote on 20 May 2022, 18:30 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Welcome back!:
But I’m not finding the thread where I was voted the smartest, most talented, and best looking man on the forum…
Still, it’s nice to have 99%! Good job, Klaus!
I think I found it...but you weren't identifying as a man.
Need a link, Lucy?
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wrote on 20 May 2022, 18:47 last edited by
OK, I've now killed the other forum.
From now on, I'm going to use a new workflow for updates: Before updating the main forum, I'll make a clone and test it there. That should hopefully make events like this less likely to occur.
Oh, I also found all file uploads, so all previously uploaded files (such as "copy&pasted" images) should work again.
