The Official Sequential/Oberheim Forum
ANNOUNCEMENTS => Sequential Newsline => Topic started by: Robot Heart on March 20, 2018, 02:31:33 PM
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You may have noticed some posts were deleted between March 10th - March 18th. These posts were lost due to a hosting error, and unfortunately their most recent backup was from March 10th.
In light of this, we're migrating the main DSI website and DSI forum to a new, and more reliable host with daily backups. Though we anticipate the migration taking just a few hours we are blocking out a bit more time just in case.
Tuesday, March 27th: Main DSI website will potentially be down 3pm - 11.30pm
Wednesday, March 28th: The DSI forum will potentially be down 3pm - 11.30pm
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Thanks for letting the community know! Going for a higher quality hosting service sounds like a very good plan. Hope that DSI have the time and resources to make manual backups of the site and forum data before the migration (for very obvious reasons).
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We were thinking of no backups before migrating, after all what could possibly go wrong ;)
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We were thinking of no backups before migrating, after all what could possibly go wrong ;)
Sounds like a good plan. I recommend to backup to /dev/null which ensures guaranteed backup success :)
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Digital lifeforms are similar to human lifeforms in that they both require some kind of maintenance to thrive. While a forum is a pure digital entity its mostly run by humans and in order to keep their interest its best that it runs smoothly and without any data loss (ref: old forum).
If the hosting service is accessed by ftp its fairly easy to make a mirror of all the files using wget (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/). The database usually require different backup tools but that should be offered directly by the hosting service.
In any case: good luck with it!