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Problem description: A forum has died and backups are not recoverable. It used to be located at http://nerdramblingz.com/starforums/. According to the site admin: "On Sunday night, the disk that hosted our forums as well as the rest of nerdramblings.com experienced a total data corruption. Everything was lost. The host has informed us that nothing was able to be recovered. I have been making regular backups, but after sifting through them, I have discovered that the SQL database that contained all of the actual posts was not in the same directory as the rest of the forum. Therefore, all posts from the creation of the Administorum 2.0 until now have been lost." I'm trying to find the best options for recovering as much as possible from the site. The most crucial content are the threads that were originally in http://nerdramblingz.com/starforums/index.php?board=19.0 and http://nerdramblingz.com/starforums/index.php?board=13.0 Attempted fixes: Checked my temporary internet files for IE and cache for Firefox on my WORK laptop. No luck there. Google Cache seems to have at least some of the text of the pages (have checked two so far), but it lacks the layout and saving them in IE ("Save as") takes AGES for each page, for some reason. Still, I'm in the process of (very slowly) individually saving what I can from Google Cache. Still hoping for better options though. Recent changes: Nope, problem doesn't relate to my local machine anyway. -- Operating system: I use Windows 7 64bit at home and at work. System specs: Not on my home computer at the moment, and can't remember exactly. It's a 2.4 GHz quad-core with 8 GB of RAM, for what it's worth, but I'm guessing this probably isn't too relevant here. I use both IE and Firefox on both machines for browsing. Location: New Zealand I have Googled and read the FAQ: FAQ - Yes Googled - Yes, but haven't applied some of the suggestions at home yet, as I'm reluctant to boot up IE/Firefox at home in case it overwrites cached files. Was hoping to get as much advice as possible before doing that.
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Oct 29, 2014 22:50
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have ytou tried turning it off and on again?
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Oct 30, 2014 02:33
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Last time I turned the internet off and on again I caused a global collapse like the 'New Dark Age' ending from the hit videogame Deus Ex (named game of the year in 2000) and our entire civilization had to rebuild itself from the ashes. So no.
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Oct 30, 2014 02:48
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Well, the Internet Wayback Machine has a capture from a year ago, it looks like. http://web.archive.org/web/20131025210619/http://nerdramblingz.com/starforums/
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Oct 30, 2014 05:03
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Well, if we trust the site admin, the database is lost. So you have 2 real options. 1) Manually stitch the data together again from cached pages, wayback machine, etc. 2) Use some sort of custom software to automate 1 Recovery is always 100x harder than simply backing up well. Yell at the admin some more, as you aren't getting anything back easily.
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Oct 30, 2014 17:57
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Well, the Internet Wayback Machine has a capture from a year ago, it looks like. The problem is it's just the front page. It doesn't seem to have archived any of the actual content. Skandranon posted:Well, if we trust the site admin, the database is lost. So you have 2 real options. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to find more sources of the data if possible. I've accessed the page before on both my work and home computers. Is there any way to recover old 'temporary internet files' or the like that might contain some of the more recent data? I think I'm out of the loop with how this stuff gets saved locally (or doesn't) because unlike back in Windows XP, there really doesn't seem to be a lot of stuff in the Temporary Internet Files folder anymore...
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Oct 30, 2014 23:55
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There isn't any easy way I can think of, only hard ways. Even if you can recover the data from the sectors, you will have to manually go through them to identify if it's useful. Could take weeks. Unless this is somehow business critical, I would just let it go.
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Oct 31, 2014 05:04
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