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With the optional hacks in and working and proving a very useful hack for the promotation of boards, as well as another practical example of its use, we will be switching the emphasis away from visible enhancements for sometime.

We will start next week with a review of server backup procedures and code. The backup at the moment is fine for the single server, but needs to be extended to cover multiple servers. Hence we may as well throw in some checking of the procedures, recovering a current backup to a test server etc.

Following on from this the new server will go live, with the transfer of test and volenteer forums. This on reflection is going to involve additional coding of safety/housekeeping procedures.

Part of the housekeeping along with the upcoming inactive forum cull will help us gauge the timing of a day where we will be offline for a few hours. The current servers paritions were not sized ideally, and we will face a disk full problem in a matter of months unless we deal with things.

The phase after this will be the template editing system. I'd hope this will be timed as an Xmas present for out users, though maybe a late one, as we want a quiet Xmas support wise!

So please enjoy all the toys you have now in anticipation of more in the new year.
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[symon]

Oh thanks Admin should rename you farther Santa Admin


Do we know which day as of yet the forums will be offline or am i jumping the gun a wee bit
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[symon]

Coolll yes let me know if you still need my forum
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[Billgar]

Seeming that you are 4 hours ahead of me time zone wise, that means, that if you have the editing system up by 3:59 am 12-26, then although for you that would be the day after xmas, for me, it would still be xmas. YAY!!!!!!
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I'll explain...

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Let's just say that if he stood for government he'd get my vote...

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Work on backups is mostly completed. A restore will be the last thing to check and will be used to duplicate the forums setup on the new servers.

Code to detect and kill "orphans" is now operational on the test server. This cleans the databases removing "orphaned" data.

A certain amount of redundant data is clogging up the system, as in the early days it was more important to work on getting forums running, than to work through all the risks in deletion.

This view applies to the moving of forums to the new server, the data will be copied, but an orphan will be left behind, providing another layer of security until moves are totally field tested.

Even the deletion of "orphans" results in an export of the "orphan" data, and is also locked against more than a few deletions at a time. The code is also written so it can run in "dry run" mode where it will see what it thinks it should do, but not do it.

So we have multiple levels of failsafe. The system is tested on test servers, can be dry run on the live servers, backs up data it deletes and guards against mass deletion, allowing any problems to be seen and dealt with on a small scale.
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The need to update to the latest security on a dozen of so web sites, has made a bit of a mockery of planned progress for today

So tomorrows plan is to get the forums system up to scratch on the new server and to start transferring test forums.

May be not a minute before time, as we seem to have taken another leap in server load in the last few days.

What is quite good though is that we seem to be bending but not breaking under the load. when we get in the swing of the server mood, we should be able to take 2-3% of the load off each day, compared to a load that is going up by possibly 0.5% a day.
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[David]

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Well after a few tweaks a test forum has been transferred to the new server

http://mydown.myfreeforum.org/

Is an example. If you click on it now, the address will mutate to:

http://mydown.zaphod.myfreeforum.org

But in a few hours the DNS should propagare leaving it intact.

There is still undeniably a lot of testing that needs doing here, before trying a live forum. I think I may make this forum the first real live one.

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