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Anyone willing to test some things for me?
[Unknown]:
I'm going to say right now, if you have a big (or moderate-size) YaBB forum please skip down below....
The first is pretty easy. I'm attaching a database restoration tool. It features the following:
* Restoration from a file on the server (uploaded with FTP not HTTP.)
* Timeout and overload prevention.
* Doesn't require SMF to be installed.
* Extracts zip and gzip archived dumps.
In other words, no more upload time outs... no more timeouts from too many queries... just plain high-grade database backup restoration ;).
Except one small thing... it needs testing. I'm not going to release this, and later find out that in some cases the timeout prevention skips data. Bad bad. Not for a restoration utility... so what I'd like is someone with a decent size database (bigger = better) to give it a test, in a test database or even on a test server, to no harm or anything... and report results.
If you're game, it's attached. Thanks a lot!
Okay, here's number two. It's not as easy, but I'm hoping to get some "hits". It's for the new YaBB converter I'm writing.
You see, I love YaBB. I really do. It's great. The problem is, Perl is going out.. and for large forums... well, I also like SMF better (sorry anyone from the YaBB team.) If you're here, especially if you're reading this, it's quite possible you agree - and want to convert over.
However, this is usually not easy, for larger forums. Currently, you have to first go to YaBB SE, then SMF. Even without that, the YaBB converter will quickly time out if you have even a decent-size forum. I don't think a converter even exists for larger YaBB forums... it may have seemed impossible to escape.
This converter features timeout prevention. Direct conversion to SMF. All those very very nice things we work hard for in SMF and its tools/converters.
But, I need a forum with a bunch of posts to test it with. Preferrably, more than 80,000. That should be enough to give it a good amount of growing pains and testing. And larger is probably even better.
So, if you have one I could test with... and a server with MySQL (or are willing to transfer the entire database of files to me) please send me a message, email me, or reply here. I don't know how many want to convert... but this is a bit of a challenge, and that makes it enough ;).
Thanks!
-[Unknown]
Ben_S:
Will test it tonight, my database is currently about 340MB so that should be large enough.
Ended up popping out and it's nearly 1am so will try it tomorrow.
Ended up going to the pub, will be at the footy tomorrow too so earliest I will get to try it is wednesday and I'll probably be overworked, will see what I can do.
[Unknown]:
Heh... well, I decided, "hey, wait a minute... I've got one right here!" and downloaded the database dump for this database here ;).
It didn't work properly; really funny, I accidentally used ";" but didn't parse those, so it kept restarting from the beginning (I had tested it previously only with a shorter dump.) I fixed that, however, and added a percentage (appoximatation) of completion. It's looking better, imho ;).
The data restoration looked okay, but I'd still love it if you could test it.. and least to make sure it runs, but it'd be nice to make sure the data works properly too. This database was only 30 mb (gzipped) anyway.
Attached is the updated version...
-[Unknown]
Ben_S:
Have some time now, will give it a go.
Ben_S:
Ok, seemed to start restoring, but have killed it as the load went upto 12 and my board stopped responding, guess I should test it on my local test box rather than my server.
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