Tim Tyler Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Prior to 2004 the Cinematography.com Forum used different software than the current forum. I have not been able to port the archive messages from the old database to the new one. The old forum archives are actually hosted on a different server too. I'd like to retire the old server gracefully before it dies on its own. Do you think it's important to keep these old messages available online, or can I pull the server and just keep the disks until I figure out a way to import the data to a new system? (If you have MSSQL and mySQL expertise and you want to help out, send me an email) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe Perez-Burchard Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 As I see the vote is 50-50, if you decide to delete, is there A way that I could get them sent to me? (how many MB of data are by the way?) Thanks. -felipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted January 24, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted January 24, 2005 Obviously you shouldn't delete all of that information, but if you need to temporarily pull it from the server until it can be converted to some other format, then go ahead. I guess we're seeing one of the classic problems of digital archiving... format obsoletion making retrieval difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Bass Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 I liked them, but gave up looking at them because I seemed to have some issue with viewing the pages. Instead being able to view a message/tree and then press "back" on my browser to go back to the page of messages, it would give me an error message, and I'd keep pressing "back" until I was on the first page of whatever archive it was. It made browsing beyond the first page a pain. Maybe it's just something I did wrong? I don't know. It's something I'd like to see kept. Perhaps you could organize it like the Cinematography.net stuff? By topic (eyelights, greenscreen, George Lucas/Lost in Translation/sucks/rules etc.)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc_Abernathy Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 maintaining servers cost money. this site is free for the most part. as long as you will store the vast knowledge of info on floppies, etc. then by alll means pull the plug and archive. as long as we have the Great Minds like david mullen and others around, this fourm will continue to serve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted January 24, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted January 24, 2005 Perhaps you could organize it like the Cinematography.net stuff? By topic (eyelights, greenscreen, George Lucas/Lost in Translation/sucks/rules etc.)? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> At the CML, you have a semi-retired person doing all that work to organize the archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Mark Sasahara Posted January 24, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted January 24, 2005 It would be nice if we could access the archives. Sounds like migration would be difficult. Any volunteers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Tyler Posted January 24, 2005 Author Share Posted January 24, 2005 Perhaps you could organize it like the Cinematography.net stuff? Actually - That's not a bad idea. I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hayes Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Sounds like the archives are too much of a hassle. Pull em off the internet and save them somewhere. Maybe at a later date they could be pulled back into this site. It?s not worth carrying an extra server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hayes Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 (edited) Another alternative is we could all don our Capuchin monk robes and spend the next 30 years transcribing them into illuminated manuscripts. Edited January 25, 2005 by bob1dp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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