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I was sifting through all old files on laptop and lo and behold i discovered a copy of the forum posts file dated in feb 2005. This was the time we lost a few accounts due to the hacker and so i grabbed a backup copy to my laptop.
I will definately with some deft joggery pokery of the file and some pre testing be able to restore this onto the new site and hence bring back all the old posts, the problem is that they would no longer be linked to any person in particular, i.e. if you posted 1000 posts on last site they would all suddenly appear but be anon user, this is because the user_id not the username is stored with the post and i have no way of linking them to new users
But at least we could restore the content i.e. the posts which are the useful thing.
This is all still dependant upon what can be retreived from old drives.
I will definately with some deft joggery pokery of the file and some pre testing be able to restore this onto the new site and hence bring back all the old posts, the problem is that they would no longer be linked to any person in particular, i.e. if you posted 1000 posts on last site they would all suddenly appear but be anon user, this is because the user_id not the username is stored with the post and i have no way of linking them to new users
But at least we could restore the content i.e. the posts which are the useful thing.
This is all still dependant upon what can be retreived from old drives.