Announcement question

[Dr Unne]

Any chance we'll lose the whole MB in this database prune or whatever you're doing? If so I need to backup my PMs. If not I don't want to bother wasting that much time and effort.

[Agent Proto]

I think it's very possible that might occur, but I have no idea. If you feel the need to backup your PMs, I would probably recommend doing so in case we do lose the whole MB in the database prune.

[Leeza]

I backed up some of my PM's...just to be on the safe side.

[Daryl]

Better be safe than sorry.

[Flying Mullet]

Is this part of a hosting move or just a pruning?

[Yamaneko]

Yeah, I'm kind of confused on that part.

[Shlup]

We're changing hosts because this one just has too many ads that we have no control over; too many instances of talking ads, porn ads, and ads that put spyware on your computer. We're backing up the database, but it all could be lost anyway. I'm not sure how much they plan on moving to the new server versus starting with a clean slate though.

[crono_logical]

We're not pruning PMs or users etc., so it's not that sort of clean slate database prune, but feel free to back up anything important to yourself anyway, you should be doing that anyway, I'd have thought *is not backing up any own PMs* I have full recent database backups anyway if something does mess up, although there's no reason why that should happen normally.


EDIT: I like how we all say different things Since I'll be the one actually moving the database (partially due to having the fastest connection), I'm making sure everything moves before threads get pruned

[Shlup]

We said different things? I thought I just said what you said, but its all a bunch of jargon to me anyway.

[Mr. Graves]

Any set time on the pruning, database switch, and whatnot?

[eestlinc]

if we lose everything then so what? just move on.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Will we have to re-register?

[Loony BoB]

Any chance we'll lose the whole MB in this database prune or whatever you're doing?
There's always a chance, but we don't plan on it.

Is this part of a hosting move or just a pruning?
This is part of both a hosting move and a pruning. We'll backup the forums from this host/server, upload them onto the new host/server and then do the prune.

Any set time on the pruning, database switch, and whatnot?
Not yet.

Will we have to re-register?
Currently, the plan is to not prune the memberlist. So if we keep going to the plan we're currently going to, no, you will not have to re-register.

[Flying Mullet]

Originally posted by Joel
Will we have to re-register?

Yes, and no one will have custom titles. Mwah-ha-ha-ha!

[crono_logical]

Pssh, I don't have a custom title anyway