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Huh? The data was lost. The admin who was suppose to be backing up the server completely (not me, another techie) has failed to do so. So unless people here have saved copies of the threads, I'm afraid there is very little to ressurect. If I'm lucky I may find very very old stuff (3+ months old), however make no guarentees.
In the coming weeks I have to sit down with the other few admins who manage this box to make some better backup arrangements, and I am going to push 6/12 hourly rsync backups with the server, even if its for the 2 domains I own. If you have better ideas on how I'm going to backup the box, post about it.
Threads from several boards bar DQN, Film&TV etc dissappeared....
That seriously sucks. Needs better backup plans. And with that I mean I might crawl through every directory once a day with some site ripper to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Shit, even /ascii/... this blows! >:(
> crawl through every directory once a day with some site ripper
You'd get a lot of duplicate content because of all the >> links. Crawling a one-link depth starting from each /board/subback.html would be more efficient... although I doubt this'll happen again...
> unless people here have saved copies of the threads
I was going to suggest checking google's cache, but it looks like they've updated it since. Oh well.
Could I ask that you not all just jump in and go leeching? As much as I have bandwidth spare, its I'd rather not be hit with unecessary bandwidth.
Already 24 hourly backups are being done, and when I get things setup a bit better, it will happen 6 hourly.
Also: Making backups of the treads through the script loses the metadata from the thread files. This can be fixed, as it's not very complex, but the file won't be a drop-in replacement.
Partition to let the robots.txt let sites like archive.org archive threads on 4-ch.net. That way threads like the NEVADA thread (which got linked on at least two other places) wouldn't have been lost forever.
PS:
Link was http://4-ch.net/general/kareha.pl/1107163918/