Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
PROGRAMMING => Other languages => Yabasic => Topic started by: Jim on December 18, 2006
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p205.ezboard.com/byabasicprogramming (http://p205.ezboard.com/byabasicprogramming)
We had 2 days of gold status left and $15 to lose, so I stuck in another $4 and we've got another 3 months.
Here's the important bit - if you want to archive anything from that site, I suggest you do it in the next three months. After that the future of all the data on that site will be out of our hands, unless someone wants to keep paying for its upkeep.
If anyone knows of a tool to rip entire ezboard sites then I will gladly rip the lot and host it elsewhere.
Jim
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very sad indeed!
jim i know of such a tool ive used it on our old forum before to save me the time of firing up my dial up modem all the time ill look it out get the name and put a link up ;)
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I'll probebly take as much random stuff as I can, for me to toy with in my spare time. Some good stuff, it would suck to see it die. After those last few months are gone, are you saying the forums will just die? Though it would be nice to get rid of bad history, it'll take some good times with it, and, more importantly, a good re-direct here for the few yabasic fanatics that are still wondering around. I mean, let's face it, some people are still trying to get their hands on net yaroze kits, which are ancient now (though very cool), so there is the possibility of more people wanting to find their way here.
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Any topics you want to transfer over here to preserve, feel free to copy and paste them.
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Slinks - what will happen is the board will stay there as long as it gets the odd post now and then, but it will have advertising on it. That's not much of a problem. The problem comes when ezboard switch off ezboard and move to yuku. What will happen then is all the non-gold forums won't be migrated over and I suspect at that point the data will just be deleted.
Jim
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heres the tool i used it works as i said i used it on our old forum and it grabed everything.
http://tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm
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I'll see what I can do :)
Jim
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Well nino, that's a monumentally stupid program, but I left it running and it got nearly 40000files and 1.1Gb of data in just over 8 hours.
I think that means we have everything 4 or 5 times over - it retrieves the html twice because of next and previous buttons and things like that.
It'll be interesting to see today's stats! The renewal price has already gone from $19 for the next 3 months to $40!
BUT it means I have a functional backup of the site. I just need to do some processing on it and get it online somewhere. I suspect it'll be about 100Mb when I've finished. I'm just about to archive it to DVD.
Cheers nino! Karma!
Jim
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Karma for you both. Thanks for taking the time to get this sorted out, Jim!
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Anyone know any REALLY GOOD tools that can do global find and replace in 40000 files at once? I think VisualStudio can handle some of it, but it'd be cool to have something more dedicated to the job. Perhaps even an html editor that can handle such a huge site?
Jim
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cool so that worked for you then? that backup is heruge :) im not sure about find and replace programs i didnt know visualstudio could do it either.
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If you add all the html files to a solution you can do a global find and replace in a solution. Alternatively you can write macros to do it.
The entire archive is a 200Mb rar file if anyone would like a copy to play with? I could torrent it, or put it online temporarily.
It's a complete mess though, there must be 3 or 4 copies of everything just accessed by different urls.
Jim
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great, now there is a permanant copy of my noobish posts. If it gets archived, will you be keeping EVERYTHING, or will you perhaps delete some stuff like the time game, cause, let's be honest, no-one wants 50 pages of the time, not really. And, would the archive also contian the admin area, cause I've always been a bit curious as to what goes on over there ;)
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Everything. At my discretion of course :P
Actually, it's a good point. I think EzBoard probably own the copyright on everything we did. I would never post the personal stuff from the admin forum. Frankly it was mostly garbage like "please keep an eye on <user>, they're posting all kinds of random crap. Right now it's harmless, just keep an eye open", or "what shall we do for the next comp".
What I will do: Post up (nearly!) everything and if someone says 'please take this down' then I'll take it down immediately.
Jim