Upgrades and Backups
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Hi guys,
Just a little info on what happened last night.
In my great wisdom I decided to upgrade NodeBB without taking a backup up the database. The upgrade caused some issues and in my tired state i managed to somehow mess up the database and nothing would work. The only backup I have was from last month.I have now managed to get the site back up with a database backup from last month. We are missing most of the posts, threads and newer members but luckily enough we don’t post that much and we didn’t have that many members. This should be an excuse to post more and to get more members to get back up to speed with where we were.
As we are back on a stable version of NodeBB most of the plugins we had installed and working before do not work now.and so we are running just the basic setup. Not having a shoutbox for a while should encourage people to post in the forums :)
I will look into improving backups and upgrade for the future so nothing like this happens again.
Future notes:
- BACKUP!!1!
- Stable release only!
It’s all a learning experience. I will accept beatings from all of you as punishment.
* cries in corner
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Idiot.Nah It is okay. Was wondering why the heck I wasn’t able to get in.
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ya fokin clown.
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i shall gather the lynch mob Aruaruu get the torches Almost get the pitch forks choob gather the sloths Scuzzy Say your last words
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We ain’t going to put up with shit like this; this aint OHG, Scuzz.
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Shit this would have never happened at OHG. Skye was in charge over there.
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Was wondering why I couldn’t login, realized the backup is pre-Schamper.
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SHOUTBOX OR RIOT
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@Leo chill out man, I’m working on it (soon’ish)
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I know you can’t hear it, but I’m tutting loudly all the same.
@Lyeta Sloths are en route, but moving slow. Should be here around the site’s 5th anniversary though.
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@President_Choob place some lady sloths in heat near scuzz they’ll be here round mornin
choobeh we need em in overdrive!!
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FFS, Really Scuzz?
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It won’t happen again. I have a script for daily backup of the database.
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Master branch of Github is now compatible with the latest NodeBB.
The NPM release should still be compatible with 0.3.2.
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I’ll test it out again @schamper. It was getting disabled when booting up NodeBB and it was also causing NodeBB to crash when i used the --dontcheckplugin thing.
error: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] This plugin is reportedly incompatible with your version of NodeBB, so it has been disabled.
error: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] Use `--no-check-plugins` if you wish to live dangerously. -
@Scuzz Hence why I said “the latest NodeBB” :)
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@Schamper You also said the NPM release should still be compatible with 0.3.2.
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Shoutbox is back, clear your caches if you can’t see it.
