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Propose for another down time of wxForum

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Hi Jorg and upCase,

In "Any thoughts about the UNICODE problem in the title?", for permanently fixing the UNICODE problem of this forum, we discussed the possibility to download the whole DB of wxForum, change their coding into utf-8 and upload them again.

I guess it's time to do so, due to the following two new reasons:

1) The lately down time of wxForum(cuased by an explosion) suggested the necessity of backing up the DB of wxForum;

2) So far, it's not possible to search non-English key words in wxForum, I guess it's solveable by doing so.

I understand that this task is substantially time-consuming, so I wonder if you have spare time recently so that this task can be scheduled to be performed within one or two months?

Thanks for All and Regards,

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Post by Jorg »

Utensil,

I would love to do that but the problem is that the mechanism that does the upload in the phpMyAdmin does not work well for large databases, and believe me this DB is LARGE.

So this is not a trivial task that I can do. I need to look into SSH again and see if I can open a remote session to the shadonet server, log into the DB, dump everything into a mysql format, somehow convert, drop the original DB and replace it.

As it only affects the searching (which should be fixed, I know), and already having a busy life at the moment, it kind of got stalled unintentionally.

I will see if I can set up a shadow server where I can experiment with the conversion process and check if the retrieved data is actually VALID data (what if we would drop a DB and can't convert the MySQL data to a new DB anymore?)

So it needs to be done in small chunks. Now that I run Linux natively at home, I can try to set up a home version of a LAMP stack to expiriment with, or use my shadow domain to setup an expirimentation forum there.

Simply converting and replacing is something I am reluctant towards, so it must be a fail safe mechanism

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Jorg wrote: I will see if I can set up a shadow server where I can experiment with the conversion process and check if the retrieved data is actually VALID data (what if we would drop a DB and can't convert the MySQL data to a new DB anymore?)

So it needs to be done in small chunks. Now that I run Linux natively at home, I can try to set up a home version of a LAMP stack to expiriment with, or use my shadow domain to setup an expirimentation forum there.

Simply converting and replacing is something I am reluctant towards, so it must be a fail safe mechanism
Yeah, it's a dangerous task which really needs fail safe mechanism. Personally I prefer a VALID backup to be done rather than the conversion. Safety comes first, function improvements can wait.

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Post by jsheets »

Hi Jorg,

If you have any trouble with SSH access let me know. Also I can set you up with a staging environment if you need it.
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