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Post by toronado on Apr 8, 2007 20:00:03 GMT
At any rate, I certainly don't envy the folks that have to get that all straightened out.
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Post by postscript on Apr 8, 2007 20:38:49 GMT
Very interesting thought John. I too had been considering pdf for future. At present I tend to copy down the last 1,000 posts I make, usually at intervals of 500 by a straight copy and paste into Word.
Peter S.
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Post by johnpr98 on Apr 8, 2007 21:03:44 GMT
Hi All Peter, I've found cutepdf which is freeware (Single pages only  ) , the www.fineprint.com/ pdf writer is probably better as you can save multiple pages $49 Unless anyone else has a better option that I'm unaware of Thanks John |
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Post by gerrit on Apr 8, 2007 23:35:47 GMT
Hi All,
I am back "in town" - the one thing I'd like to mention is that Proboards appears to be one of the most stable forum platforms around - I have not yet been confronted with any problem on any Proboard forum at any time I have been involved with them, whereas offcial forums for artists like Hayley Westenra, Vittorio Grigolo, Nicola Benedetti, Aled Jones and Katherine Jenkins have had no end of problems.
The following haven't been common to all boards, mind you - but there have been confirmed virus infections, excruciatingly slow server responses, loss of forum posts, complete inaccesibility of the forum, obnoxious advertising ... with these official forums (all run by UCJ).
Now, the free Proboards forums do have advertising - but as yet these advertisements are unobtrusive and do not interfere with people accessing the forum - which is quite unlike some of the rubbish I have seen on these so-called official forums.
It beats me how UCJ can allow "sponsoring" by commercial advertising when it so clearly impedes the user's enjoyment of the forum. Considering the severe problems just about all UCJ artists have had on numerous occasions, I think UCJ should discard yabb immediately. If they want free boards, let them switch to Proboards. And if they want ad-free boards (which amazingly they don't seem to prefer), they probably could strike a deal with Proboards as well.
Gerrit
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Post by jons on Apr 9, 2007 14:55:36 GMT
The UCJ forums are not stable at the moment and shouild be avoided to prevent further data loss Ontrack is a company that specialises in data recovery, even corrupted data. If there are no back-ups (which there should be) then even if a virus had got into the data and it could reset every single binary digit, on these large terabyte HDD's in RAID configuration in minutes, then there security is terrible for a start the laws of physics have been broken and I think we could all do with something like those virus's to wipe our harddrives of information when we sell them to strangers so they can't access our private information. Its very, very hard to get ride of data completely on an Harddrive. |
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Post by Richard on Apr 10, 2007 13:35:05 GMT
Hello again everybody!  I see all the posts have now disappeared from All Angels' official forum, so the problem is spreading!  Richard  |
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Post by johnpr98 on Apr 10, 2007 17:33:25 GMT
Hi Everyone Please don't shoot the messenger I have made a few phone calls today + a few emails as you would expect. I have also being sad all day that UCJ didn't put their forums in 'maintenance mode' to protect the posts that were intact. Before I left for home tonight I read that all the posts had being lost at the 'All Angels' forum. At this point I rang UCJ again and asked for an update The NewsThere's a bug in the UCJ system There's a April 5th backup of the forums i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifDecisions and checks have to be made before the backups are put online (I most certainly don't want to have a groundhog day so I'm willing to wait). Hopefully we will back online to continue from April 5th, I don't have a restore date for this yet. As I said at the beginning of my post, please don't shoot the messenger if things don't go according to the plan I've just outlined At this moment in time, things are looking good  John (Recovering from a trauma   ) |
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Post by roger on Apr 10, 2007 18:01:07 GMT
Hi John,
Thank you very much for the update and for your endeavours to glean some information. At least we know the reason and a full return to normality seems likely, even if a few days' worth of posts might be lost. Due to the difficulties, I suspect relatively little was posted during that period anyway.
Good luck to all Forum Adminstrators, I say!
Roger
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Post by johnpr98 on Apr 10, 2007 18:39:15 GMT
Hi Roger I'll be happier when I see all the forums back as they were. I am much happier about any more loss of posts in the damaged forums, I think we can catch up on a couple of days lost info i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifMy fingers are crossed (And everything else). John |
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Post by postscript on Apr 11, 2007 10:09:02 GMT
Hi All Peter, I've found cutepdf which is freeware (Single pages only ) , the www.fineprint.com/ pdf writer is probably better as you can save multiple pages $49 Unless anyone else has a better option that I'm unaware of Thanks John Thanks for your kind consideration. I am sure your information will be of use to many. However, I use pdf for professional reasons so have the big Adobe monster. Peter S. |
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Post by johnpr98 on Apr 11, 2007 11:34:21 GMT
Hi Peter No doubt Adobe is the industry standard, however I was comparing a free pdf printer v a paid for pdf option, I suspect Full Adobe is around £200 v £25.00 option for archiving. You pays your money and makes your choice dependent on your individual needs. All the best John  |
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Post by jons on Apr 11, 2007 13:23:28 GMT
John, thank you for the update! That made my so happy I want to have your babies!  i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif Seriously thanks John. Heres an idea for backing up a forum yourself. When ever you surf the net pages are stored in a temporary cache. If for example this forum come to about 500MB and you set the cache size to about a Gigabyte and view the whole forum, its should all be stored as cached html pages. Just copy the folder to a backup folder. Or, as you are admin view each person profile with every post displayed and save each page to view offline and back that up. If like Peter you want back-up all your posts to view in one place, just view all your posts in your profile and save the page, put it somewhere safe and keep doing it every so often. No need to faff about with pdf's. Putting all the posts back is the problem. The pages will contain not just the posts but the thread title, reply number and date they were posted. If you could write a script to extract that information and automatically re-integrate it into a empty forum, your sorted! You would need the script to understand which posts belong to which thread and put in the time they were originally posted on manually. EDIT: Actually, if your paying all that for Adobe, then its best to use that and get your money's worth! |
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Post by jons on Apr 11, 2007 13:57:18 GMT
Get UCJ to back-up the back-up!  |
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Post by jons on Apr 11, 2007 16:42:38 GMT
I assume everyone's noticed the adverts appearing between the first two posts?
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Post by roger on Apr 11, 2007 16:58:06 GMT
Hi Jon,
Yes, we have noticed and we are not happy about it. It is something that ProBoards inflicted upon all forums yesterday.
The Proboards support forum has been inundated with complaints to which Dave has added ours. I tried to do likewise only to discover that the thread has been locked!
Apparently some coding will be available shortly (was it this weekend, Dave?) which will enable us to move the ads back to their original position. Thank goodness for that but we shouldn't have to do it.
Roger
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