Topic Pruning

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:33 am

So do General Cel Discussion non-poll topics older than one year automatically get deleted or is that just where the topics ended up getting trimmed down to?

I'm going to miss some of info those topics. I should have written that stuff down earlier.

I kind of glad you deleted the topic discussing poop though. LOL

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:49 pm

"They shoot topics, don't they ?"

transmet · Post by **transmet** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:44 pm

Yup - shoot'em straight down.

Post by **magician** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:14 am

I just pruned all the forums of threads with no updates for 366 days. The database behind Beta was growing to several hundred megs in size and a lot of it was those old threads. Keeping the DB small saves webspace on the host and speeds the forum up, so I periodically clean it.

I did lose some threads I didn't intend to so I will have to dig them out of an old backup. I dump the database to disk once a month just in case.

If you have a specific thread you would like restored, send me a PM and I will try to find it.

-M

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:08 am

Magician wrote:
If you have a specific thread you would like restored, send me a PM and I will try to find it.

-M

There was this one about cels.

Fever's Break · Post by **Fever's Break** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:03 am

In_Gabriel_We_Trust wrote:There was this one about cels.

Oh, yeah!!! I remember that one!! And there was this other one about anime.

Gabe, I love reading your posts. You crack me up!

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:44 pm

Fever's Break wrote: Gabe, I love reading your posts. You crack me up!

Thanks.

I'll be here all week but there is a two drink minimum.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:12 pm

I thought of a topic I'd like to save. Magician do you still have the data from the older Mandarake Zenbu lottery/Big Web Auction threads?

I'm like to print out the highest auction results that I usually do for the older Zenbus if you still have those. Thanks.

Post by **magician** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:51 pm

I will see if I can find and restore them. It may take a little time as I have to rebuild my test db engine, but I need to do that anyway. I have database backups going back 2 years so I'm sure I have those threads. Let me see what I can do.

-M

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:51 pm

In any case, Then again, it may not.

kisara · Post by **kisara** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:44 am

GABE!!!!! You're back!!!! Y'ave been missed. Serious lack of bad jokes goin' on around here. Though Wendy has been trying her best to make-up for it!

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:57 am

kisara wrote:Though Wendy has been trying her best to make-up for it!

.......

.......heeey!

kisara · Post by **kisara** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:42 am

Woah. Posting after 3 a.m. is never a good idea. Just realized that post I was responding to was a month old. *rubs eyes* Sleep. . . would. . .*yawns*. . . be wise.