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[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

No jokes intended......you could be up all night????

[Jeff]

night(s)

I have two modes. Artsy Fartsy Mode and Code Mode. The two can't meet. Its kinda like crossing streams on ghost busters. My mind might explode. I am officially in code mode. Well in the second hour of watching the screen roll and doing other things I can do on the new server to ready it

[Southside]

Did you order the flux capacitor on the new server?

[Jeff]

YEA! It Finished!   Now time to move this one over.

[Jeff]

The scr is rolling again. The gz gallery file has been moved to the new server and is now extracting.

[Jeff]

there may be some slowdowns as I tar other directories, bbut they should not be to bad.  I'll need to stop the forum for a little bit soon to make a database back up for testing.

[DR Buck]

...............  I'll need to stop the forum for a little bit soon to make a database back up for testing.

OK,  Go ahead.   I'm going to bed.

[Don P]

Myself, holler if you need anything, like coffee or Grits

[Jeff]

Restoring a datbase is a very slow process. Right now I am restoring the test database on the new server. its been running for some time and not very far.  a little over 1%  in a half hour

Database 'forums2' on 'localhost'.
File: forums2_2018_01_09_22_31.sql.gz
Charset: utf8
Up to now 55 of 112 tables were created.
Up to now 130.881 of 12.036.768 records were successfully added.
Now the table 'smf_log_boards' is restoring.

Overall Progress
       1,09 %

Speed
300   
100   50000

28 Minutes 17 Seconds, 154 Page refreshs

[Crusarius]

Been there done that. Glad its you

Thanks

I would be lost without this forum and all my new friends.

[Jeff]

Update.  Having troubles restoring a back up database on the new server. It ran all night and is still less than 5%.  I may have to do something you guys won't like.  I may have to empty the tables that show what you have read. The smf_board_log and smf_board_topcs together are almost 6,000,000 records.  It takes a lot of data to keep track of where you are in every topic and what you have read and haven't read.  I don't wnt to do it, and I am exploring other options, but be forewarned, it may have to come to that. And it will be twice. Once just to be able to create a backup here to use for testing, then one again when we do the final move.

I'm tired out already and it hasn't hardy began.

[Crusarius]

give me a reason to find old topics i need to reread

[sandhills]

Seeings how I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about with gigs, rams, etc. ect. you have my complete respect and admiration for what you do for all of us.  Go take a nap, don't let the streams cross and don't make us call in doctorb to give you orders  .  Although a few of us here may go through withdrawls and possibly a seizure or 2 it'll all work out in the end so do what you gotta do, thanks for everything!

[btulloh]

I can live with that.  Seems like a small price to pay for a big benefit.

[Jeff]

THis attempt has been aborted. I'm having them change the operating sytem and related software versions on the new server. If it takes longer than today, I'll reopen the gallery and just have to back it up again for the next try, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it, as that takes two hours.

[Southside]

When this baby hits 88 MPH you're gonna see some serious ....

[Jeff]

They had mysqlI  database system installed.  I spent 12 hour getting that figured out that. Our databases are mysql  ARGH!

[Magicman]

And all of this time the Harley picture is saying....."say what" ??

[thecfarm]

As long as I can keep bashing grits,on The Forestry Forum,I don't care what you do.
  :D  :D  :D  :D

[Sheepkeeper]

Sometimes it's the little things that trip you up the worst. They shoulda knew that  :D

[ronwood]

The endless issues when trying to update a server. Did your server provider not know what you had on the existing server. Seems that the dropped the ball on that one.
Ron

[ronwood]

harley looks a bit puzzled too!!

[Texas Ranger]

As long as I can keep bashing grits,on The Forestry Forum,I don't care what you do.
  :D  :D  :D  :D

Why would you want to bash Girls Raised In The South!  Apparently you have spent very little time in the south, and permafrost has set in.   ;D

[coxy]

As long as I can keep bashing grits,on The Forestry Forum,I don't care what you do.
  :D  :D  :D  :D

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[thecfarm]

GRIT S and grits are 2 diffeant things. Abbreviations are most always in capital letters. WM for one. Many many more.
The space is there to make it in capital letters