PREPARATION OF THE MIGRATION

[shark]

Trucla is currently working on the migration of the forum into a new phpBB forum.(if you have knowledge of phpBB, don't hesitate to propose your assistance to him)

Unfortunately, the PMs will not be recovered on the new forum. (we will have to abandon them in the old lagoon ... with a little food and some matches to make fire of course)


If you have important PMs, think of copying them...

[luke]

Don't forget to lock all sections just before the extraction from aceboard if you really want to migrate ALL messages

[Squeeky]

I have the feeling that a lot of that has happened. I understand that "locking" would mean that from a certain date/time nothing could be added and therefore no need to be retrieved but I think from Shark's comment that process is ongoing. Whether that process has begun from the oldest date on record (?) ?

If that is where Trucla was able to begin and work through to what we are currently posting, then so much for what I believe Shark would desire. Locking threads already captured would prevent current input before any migration whether it be tomorrow or 12 months time.

[Trucla]

@Luke and @Squeeky: Thanks for concern but according to what I've read the forums must be open when read by acepompe.

On the other hand the scrïpt reads the forum (all sections) each time it runs. So it's not possible to preserve posts or members that were caught in the last time it ran. In other words, there is no .

When time arrives for the "real" migration what we need is a message on the index page asking people to stop posting here. Otherwise there is a strong chance that they are not "fished". One thing that I think could be done at that moment is suspending the inscrïption of new members.

In a couple of days I'll publish a list of important differences already noted in the results of the migration test.

Thanks!

[Trucla]

Hi!

As promised I start publishing some differences/limitations in the future migration:

1.- I already had almost 3 following days when I wasn't able to pick a decent backup (bigger than the previous one) of the aceboard forum. I hope this doesn't happen when I do it for real, but you'll have to be prepared and patient.

2.- Besides the possibility of the precedent, I estimate about 1 day for doing a lot of needed manual adjustments. Once again please be patient and use the new lagoon (space-forums) for putting out your steam! Believe me that nobody wants more this to be completed than myself.

3.- It revealed impossible importing the backup in bbcode mode, as it always got frozen each time at different points, the best I've managed was about 15 percent of the puppy. So the copy will be in html mode. This means that some posts may look a bit weird. Solution? Well a bit of work of the original posters, re-applying the bbcodes.

4.- A few posts (less than it looks like, because deleted - by admin, moderators or issuers - posts are counted in aceboard and as far as I've seen there is no way to update the figure shown) will be lost by reasons behind my knowledge and control. I don't figure out a solution for this, sorry. Besides the deleted posts I suspect (not sure though) that "posts" in PMs also count for the figure shown in aceboard.

5.- Members not having posted will not be recovered.

For the moment it's all. If something else comes up I'll let you know within this topic.

Cheers!

[Graen]

What's to prevent people from stealing other members IDs? Or have you found a way to preserve passwords during the migration?

[Trucla]

The passwords are not migrated. But emails are. So what will happen is that on the first time an old member is going to login he/she will state that the password is forgotten. Then the system will send instructions to the email address of the member.

That's the only way. This because the scrïpt has no access to the aceboard database and the passwords are encrypted in the database.

Cheers!

[Graen]

So before the migration, everyone will have to update their e-mail, and make them public? Or can they keep their e-mail information hidden?

[RoRi]

as far as I understood you can keep your e-mail adress hidden

[Greebo]

Is there no way of write protecting the present Forum for anyone but Admin during the migration?

[TheBrain]

Trucla wrote :
1.- I already had almost 3 following days when I wasn't able to pick a decent backup (bigger than the previous one) of the aceboard forum. I hope this doesn't happen when I do it for real, but you'll have to be prepared and patient.

Do you run the scrïpt on a high bandwidth host? (preferably 100 mbit, the more the better, basically)
Because if you can't resume, or recover from failure (presumably connection failure of some sort would be the most likely cause), then speed and stability is the key to doing a complete recovery.

Of course, adapting the scrïpt to be able to resume would be the better option... If you can get the scrïpt to me I wouldn't mind checking to see if this is easily doable (and if so, actually do it, of course :P).

[Trucla]

@RoRi: It's true, but it's readable by admins.

@Greebo: No, my friend! It should be open!

@TheBrain: I've a 100Mbit connection. For the scrïpt, take a look at:

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http://martial1000fzr.free.fr/acepompe_V0.3.rar

Cheers!

[Trucla]

Sorry Graen!

I hadn't seen your post! Age problems, I think!

No you do nothing as admins can see your email even if it's hidden. What they can't is seeing your password...

Cheers!

[Greebo]

Trucla wrote : @Greebo: No, my friend! It should be open!

I just thought that capture could be done if it was read only, but no one unauthorised could change the contents during the process.

I'd have thought it would have been easy to set permissions suitably, but then my knowledge of these things is rudimentary - I usually get my son to do operations of that sort when he's not busy with robotics dissertations and the like

[Trucla]

Greebo, during my "adventure" I've read tons of posts in forums, and this is something I read (and memorized), coming in a post issued by the modifier of the original acepompe. So I don't want even try doing it other way.

Cheers!