New Server Update.. Any issues? - Problems with Forum ?

**aspkin** · #1 04-11-2008

So I'm just about done moving the site to a new server.

There were some issues with the move I did a few days ago, and because of that we lost some data between then and now. Long story short, I screwed up when moving the first time. Apparently the site was still using my old server as a database... and once I shut the server down at 12:30 am this morning, the forum was shut down as well. I just spent the last 8 hours piecing most of the forum together. Everything should be functional, I just have a few more things to add and settings to tweak and it should be okay for the most part.

If you have any issues, please let me know and I'll try to address them.

Aspkin

mantisinc · #2 04-11-2008

Can't access any of my PM's, they are just showing up as 0.
Also, have we lost a lot of posts? I'm seeing posts from today, and then posts from the 6th of this month and before.

**aspkin** · #3 04-11-2008

Yes, a couple days of post missing, same with PMs. :(

My mistake..

mantisinc · #4 04-11-2008

Not a prob

Although, all of my PM's have gone :O

Not that I really care about that...

Did you not do a direct impex import from your last forum dump? Or did you not create a fresh backup?

twdell · #5 04-11-2008

what about the reputation? i didn't see any of mine when i looked.

**aspkin** · #6 04-11-2008

There was an error with the backup I had, no matter what it would keep giving me errors. So I decided to do a fresh install and import tables as needed. I tried to import PMs but it wouldn't accept them for some reason.

I could of swore I added reputation back in, I'll check on that.

**aspkin** · #7 04-11-2008

There we go, rep is back.

One last thing on the to-do list,

**aspkin** · #8 04-11-2008

Wow... much more time then I thought had passed... geez

Arg!

extension · #9 04-11-2008

And I was ready to blame Moddee for deleting 80% of my posts!!!

thelizardking · #10 04-11-2008

I was wondering why I couldn't get on last night, yep posts after 4/6 are gone...like Modee said there was some garbage but there were a couple good threads that we might have to restart...looks like the Suspension Codes one is gone...also I have 0 PMs

mantisinc · #11 04-14-2008

That's the URL word mod isn't it?

imjustme · #12 04-15-2008

Yeah. My PM inbox seems somehow huge too. It was full earlier now it's empty. Is the storage increased for PMs?

**aspkin** · #13 04-15-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Modee

Hmm...for example

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-su...ains-same.html

in the old forum didn't the Name of the thread show up in the link? Now it's just a URL.

Ah I see what you mean... hmmm lots of issues with the move... it's a pain to get everything working again..

twdell · #14 04-16-2008

i just looked at me rep, and i lost a couple points, and now i'm back to being an ebay newbie. last week i had moved up one level.

topazcorp · #15 04-16-2008

Also the country flags are gone.. they were really usefull when answering a question.

Jonas · #16 04-17-2008

Okay I'm supposed to have 156 message in my inbox. 2 are still unread. But I go to control panel and it won't show me them and acts like my sent box is empty and says only 1 message from yesterday, which was from Modee saying don't make documents like he's scolding me though I haven't been to this board for over a week.

Anyone know what's going on? If you sent me a private message recently please resend it as the board software just made them inaccessible.

extension · #17 04-17-2008

aspkin was moving forum from server to another server, and screwed up with process. Supposedly some posts and private messages are gone.

**aspkin** · #18 04-17-2008

Lol, it was my mistake, the PMs for some reason didn't want to transfer over.

Jonas · #19 04-18-2008

Can I get them back? I have it stuck as 2 unread messages and no way to clear them and I want to see what they say.

Killed by Ebay · #20 04-18-2008

Its says i only hae 1 total message and i had alot more then that

GreenBean · #21 04-18-2008

Yep. aspkin is aware of this problem. When the servers were changed, quite a few things including messages are not available. My understanding is that aspkin is going to rectify the problem. There is another problem (for me AND it's not only paypal) as to search now you need 4 characters not 3. Sure there is an
answer but? I am a blonde, just too much, too much.

Teething troubles only.
( no flags at present as well but Lord Leader is aware).

GreenBean · #22 04-26-2008

aspkin, maybe if I am lucky you are going to understand this first off. LOL. I have 945 posts according to the tally. However I can check only 500 as that is all that is stored. I have checked yours,modee,Mrs Luv,mantis. It is the same situation. Each has only a record of 500 posts. So there is lost info.

If you understand, YEAH will do for an answer. Or tell me you have done
something clever that I do not understand. LOL